Television was a latecomer: state TV launched in 2001, several years after the first private station.
That would sink the paper's hopes of buying a stake in Polsat, a private television station.
School classes were cancelled until Monday, which a private TV station called "snow holidays".
The private television station Channel-I said local villagers rescued more than 40 people after the accident, and that several other people swam to shore.
Atef Awad, a member of al-Wasat party, told the private ONTV station that judges should be treated like all other public officials, expected to retire at 60.
CTV, a private television station, reports that such facilities in Quebec province are often overwhelmed at weekends when prisoners arrive to serve short sentences, which can lead to some overcrowding.
Bigelow predicted that the primary customers will be upwardly mobile countries including Brazil, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates that "have a difficult time getting their astronauts into orbit" and could use a private space station to barter and build up prestige.
She was last seen in a videotape broadcast Feb. 9 by the private Kuwaiti television station Al-Rai.
In any case, now that the Space Shuttle has been scuttled and the proposed Ares I Constellation program rocket has been cancelled, NASA has little near-term choice but look to private ventures for Space Station access.
This marks the first successful cargo mission to the space station by a private company.
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Since the retirement of its space shuttles, NASA has hired out supply missions to the International Space Station to the private rocket company SpaceX.
The scheduled trip comes just a little over four months after the project successfully completed a docking test by the unmanned private spacecraft with the International Space Station.
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Behnken has inherited the position at a time of transition for the astronaut corps, as NASA looks beyond its retired space shuttle program toward hiring U.S. companies to fly its crews on private spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The landing marked the end of the first private flight ever to the International Space Station.
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SpaceX became the first private company to deliver supplies to the station on NASA's behalf in October.
SpaceX from Southern California, successfully launched and recovered the first private supply rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) in May of this year.
Other features of the scheme include adding a cycle lane to Silent Street and a night-time taxi rank and private hire area added to the bus station.
The Augustine report now makes it more likely the government will dispense with NASA's services entirely in low Earth orbit and ask private firms to deliver crew to the station, as well as cargo.
If successful, this launch will mark the first time a private spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station.
Plans are in the works for private companies to begin shipping cargo to the station, and eventually to carry astronauts as well.
"We're handing off to the private sector our transportation to the International Space Station so that Nasa can focus on what we do best - exploring even deeper into our Solar System, with missions to an asteroid and Mars on the horizon, " explained agency administrator Charles Bolden.
However, the project will not go ahead until the current private-sector owners of the derelict power station and the neighbouring Nine Elms site are themselves ready to go ahead with a massive redevelopment of the site, which is expected to create 16, 000 new homes and provide a new location for the US embassy.
What company launched the first private space craft that docked with the International Space Station?
Many of these private companies have goals far beyond servicing the space station.
SpaceX successfully launched its commercial rocket today marking the first time a private company has sent a spacecraft to the space station.
Thanks to Elon Musk blazing a trail for commercial space with SpaceX, private spaceships have already docked with the International Space Station.
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Three years ago, a San Francisco television station outlined how people were betting at private boxing shows featuring fighters as young as 8 years old.
Now Constellation is cancelled, the plan's third part is to encourage private firms to provide transport to and from the space station.
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Several thousand cameras, many provided by private companies, will now cover transport hubs like Grand Central Station, Penn Station and Times Square.
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