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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 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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Poorni Bid says Kashkari's intensity made the man she and other classmates called Rocket Scientist seem wise and competent beyond his years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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