Mojave

A private spaceship has won the -million Ansari X Prize after making a second successful flight into space in a week. SpaceShipOne reached 368 000 feet, according to X Prize officials, well beyond the space threshold of 328 000 feet. The prize was offered for the first successful manned private space flight.

The world’s first ever privately manned space craft was poised for relaunch on Wednesday as part of a bid to snatch a -million prize aimed at kickstarting commercial space travel. SpaceShipOne will stage its second sub-orbital flight in California’s Mojave desert, in what its creators hailed as the start of a new space race.