For an example of where entrepreneurs can go in this business, see ("Rocket man").
Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.
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The debris is essentially the residue of hundreds of rocket launches, exploration missions and other man-made objects left circling Earth.
The early Soviet Space triumphs were managed and steered by Sergei Korolev, the man who built the R7 rocket that put Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin into orbit.
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The most obvious one was the cancellation earlier this year of NASA's Constellation program, which was intended to provide a "man-rated" expendable rocket to replace the shuttle as America's means of putting humans into space.
Poorni Bid says Kashkari's intensity made the man she and other classmates called Rocket Scientist seem wise and competent beyond his years.
That truce's fragility was demonstrated on Thursday, when Hamas militants launched a barrage of rocket and mortar attacks in Gaza, after a Palestinian man died from Israeli gunfire near a Jewish settlement.
By some accounts, the Russians, Iranians and others had discovered that he was covertly providing automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and even shoulder-fired, man-portable anti-aircraft missiles to "the opposition" there, including known jihadists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda.
It's also against Tripoli's rules to aim the rocket at any hard target, for obvious reasons--one man's weekend missile could easily become another man's Air Force One-seeking Stinger.
It calls for a rocket that is taller and more powerful even than the boosters that took man to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.
The Esa ministerial council outcome was warmly welcomed by Jean-Yves Le Gall, the man who heads up Arianespace, the commercial operator of Europe's big rocket.
Also in Texas, id Software founder John Carmack--the man who brought the world the Doom gaming franchise--has taught himself rocket science and is pushing his own space venture, Armadillo Aerospace.
For a country that put a man on the moon and ran a taxi service to the International Space Station, this is not rocket science!
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