XPRIZE launched new kind of space race, book recounts
Journalist chronicles challenge to build reusable manned spacecraft
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SOARING SpaceShipOne (shown here with its carrier aircraft) earned its makers the $10 million XPRIZE. A new book looks back at the spaceflight contest.
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