Shuttle Endeavour, which had been docked with the Mir space station, unhooked on Thursday, about a half hour after the Russian space agency launched a Soyuz rocket with three new crew members for the space station.
Runners are a dime a dozen in the mobile space and thankfully Tap Rocket succeeds at being a fun little flight of fancy without any overbearing microtransaction model or pretentions.
Along with the racy Maxim shoot, she was recently lavishly feted with vodka and medals from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, attended a space rocket launch in Kazakhstan, is an advisor to a Moscow-based bank and is selling action figures in her femme fatale likeness.
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Far from the common perspective owing to American media, culture, and corporatism, I do not believe that getting a job should be like launching a rocket into space.
Last year it failed in an attempt to send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket.
From a small island in the Pacific, SpaceX managed to send a rocket into space.
He joked that initially "we had a tiny little factory" near a suburban strip mall, where space was so scarce that all the stages of a single rocket couldn't fit into the same building.
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!
Last Friday, SpaceX, another company started by Tesla founder Elon Musk, sent a rocket into space.
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Earlier this year, it fired a rocket into space, the first to be designed, paid for and launched entirely with private money.
In contrast, NASA's SLS is a heavy-lift rocket designed to lift a 130-ton payload into space.
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In April last year, Seoul sent its first astronaut into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.
If Russians could get a rocket ship into space, and lead on nuclear weaponry, what else could their scientists pull off?
He said a reusable rocket could make space launches 100 times cheaper.
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In 1996 Lockheed won competitions to build a replacement for the space shuttle, an infra-red satellite-warning system and a new rocket-launcher for the American air force.
The company is developing a heavy-lift rocket with twice the cargo capability of the space shuttle, and also dreams of building a spacecraft that could carry a crew to Mars.
It is launching a fleet of spy satellites and plans to test a rocket that can reenter the atmosphere--officially, for space shuttle research.
Industry officials said in recent weeks plans to use a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule supplied by SpaceX, imploded.
At the same time, the agency is working with its industry contractors to develop a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule to take Americans beyond Earth orbit to an asteroid and ultimately Mars.
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His Genesis I spacecraft went into space that July on a Russian rocket.
On 18 August, the week before the loss of the space station mission, a Proton rocket failed to put a communications satellite in its proper orbit.
To get there, the agency is building the Space Launch System, a colossal rocket capable of putting in orbit all the tonnes of equipment that will be needed on such a venture.
Verne's vehicle is not a rocket but a projectile launched into space by a gigantic cannon.
Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne is the sole DIY rocket to put a human into space.
Its movements had all the hallmarks of being a spent rocket casing or other piece of space junk.
And while you didn't exactly have to be a rocket scientist to join the original space missions (the U.S. Mercury and Apollo programs recruited many test pilots), if you want to stand a chance against other heavily-qualified applicants, it's certainly an advantage.
The space industry of 2006 is like a rocket about to launch on its maiden voyage--nobody knows whether it will take off or just blow up on the pad.
Pizza Hut plans this month to put its 30-foot logo on a Russian Proton rocket that will zoom to the International Space Station.
Webster, 47, learned about the risks of betting on overcomplex space technology more than a decade ago, when he and two Harvard Business School classmates dreamed up the idea of launching commercial satellites with a rocket carried in the cargo bay of the space shuttle.
Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 program, relies on a modified miniature version of the same rocket motors the space shuttle uses to reposition itself in space: hydrogen peroxide is burned in the presence of a catalyst to produce pure steam, which is then used to move the arm.
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