For advocates of space tourism, the year 2004 can be conveniently summed up in one word: "
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". That project could hardly have gone better: after just three powered test-flights, starting on the centenary of the Wright brothers' first flight,
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reached space three times in 2004, thereby winning the Ansari
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of $10 million.