"Every launch into space is a thrilling event, but this one is especially exciting because it represents the potential of a new era in American spaceflight, " he said.
He has rattled dominant players in the airline business, started a line of soft and alcoholic drinks, ventured into bridal wear and make-up, and has ambitious plans to launch tourists into space.
As a rite of passage, the record-breaking Red Bull event built pent-up attention at least twice as we waited for the balloon to launch Baumgartner into space.
NASA's next-generation rocket, a behemoth of a booster expected to launch astronauts deeper into space than ever before, has passed a major design milestone, space agency officials announced Wednesday.
MSN: Giant deep-space rocket passes key test - Technology & science - Space - Space.com | NBC News
Indeed, the United States could have been the first nation to successfully launch a man into space, except that while it chose to conduct those last extra safety tests, the Soviet Union sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit and the history books.
Financial backer of SpaceShipOne, first to launch private flight into suborbital space.
The United States today is locked into space launch systems and their large and ponderous infrastructure that have had problems with reliability, are incapable of rapidly placing payloads in orbit and are staggeringly expensive to operate.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Rumsfeld II: The Secretary Strikes Back
It will have a massive ability to launch as much as 110 tons into space, four times what the shuttle could manage.
And half-a-century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik we had no idea how we would beat them to the Moon.
Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon.
WHITEHOUSE: The 2011 State of the Union Address: Enhanced Version
Last May, they announced a plan to merge their space-launch operations into a new venture, the United Launch Alliance, and the Federal Trade Commission is expected to approve the deal sometime this month.
In both cases, the cause appeared to be a problem with the Taurus XL rockets used as a vehicle by the space agency to launch the satellites into orbit.
FORBES: The Failure of Climate Science, One Satellite At A Time
The idea of personally exploring outer space appeals to many but the closest most folks can get now is to create an inexpensive satellite that can go out into space on the growing number of private launch vehicles.
One of the latest is the so-called ExoPlanetSat nanosatellite developed by MIT and Draper Laboratory, which recently got the go-ahead from NASA's Cubesat Launch Initiative and is now set to hitch a ride into space sometime in 2012.
ENGADGET: ExoPlanetSat nanosatellite to begin search for alien worlds next year
Our first incentivized competition, the Ansari X PRIZE, went to Scaled Composites, which beat out 26 teams from seven countries to become the first to build and launch a private space vessel that could carry three people 100 kilometers into space twice within two weeks.
FORBES: Launching the Next Era in Space Travel and Exploration
He watched the launch from Darmstadt, and was thrilled to see the mission finally get into space.
One small step in May is poised to turn into one giant leap for space capitalism as NASA approved the Sunday evening launch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule.
ENGADGET: SpaceX Dragon capsule launch gets go signal from NASA Alt
They literally shoot up like a canon ball, get you out of the atmosphere into space and falling back to land within a couple of minutes of your launch.
Profits have been hit hard by the near-collapse of the company's commercial space-launch business, a dwindling share of the aircraft market and a government investigation into its military business.
Even the shuttle will live on, in some sense, since the Space Launch System the unromantic name of the beefy rocket needed to loft astronauts and cargoes into high orbits or farther into the solar system will be built partly from recycled shuttle parts in an effort to save money and use familiar technology.
应用推荐