Last Friday, SpaceX, another company started by Tesla founder Elon Musk, sent a rocket into space.
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From a small island in the Pacific, SpaceX managed to send a rocket into space.
Earlier this year, it fired a rocket into space, the first to be designed, paid for and launched entirely with private money.
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.
If Russians could get a rocket ship into space, and lead on nuclear weaponry, what else could their scientists pull off?
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.
SpaceShip Two will use its hybrid rocket motor to propel itself into space.
In April last year, Seoul sent its first astronaut into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.
At its farthest end is a full-size rocket of the kind that shot Soviet cosmonauts into space.
In contrast, NASA's SLS is a heavy-lift rocket designed to lift a 130-ton payload into space.
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Last year it failed in an attempt to send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket.
His Genesis I spacecraft went into space that July on a Russian rocket.
In an era of concern over climate change, Galaxy Suite has no plans so far to offset the pollution implications of sending a rocket to carry just six guests at a time into space.
He said the rocket reached an altitude of approximately 200 miles, solidly into space, and just 50 miles below the International Space Station.
Will Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic's president, said that one of the things which attracted Aabar was the fact that White Knight (an aircraft which lifts to high altitude a rocket that can then take either passengers or satellites onwards into space) could be flown from Abu Dhabi.
It soon impressed the astronomy community when it was the only facility in the West able to track the rocket carrying the Russians' first satellite, the Sputnik, 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.
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Eventually the company is hoping to use its research to create orbiting systems that can fling other satellites into deep space, but seeing how the last Dnepr rocket crashed and burned on liftoff in 2006, Team Tether is probably best off taking this endeavor one step at a time.
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The 44-metre PSLV rocket hurled into polar orbit TES and two tiny satellites, one from European Space Agency and the other from Germany.
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.
We have teamed up with one of the most respected cyber-universities in the United States to develop a program to integrate the two sciences (cyber and physical security) into an environment similar to that of Space Camp at the Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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No, the owners of this space have invested millions of dollars to upgrade the media into rocket propelled digital video screens, the likes of which no one has ever seen before.
But the elegant "Space Oddity" video, reportedly months in the making, may rocket him into a higher orbit.
Mission controllers tracked the rocket's path as it streaked in a southwesterly direction over the Pacific and climbed into space.
Europe's space freighter, Johannes Kepler, has been blasted into orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana.
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.
Over a decade ago he helped pioneer the idea of the cube-sat satellite that is a small self contained box that could ride with other such boxes in the payload of a rocket where it could conduct low gravity experiments, biological experiments of do other interesting activities when released into space.
The land-based anti-missile rocket is to be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific in hopes of destroying a modified Minuteman missile fired into space 20 minutes earlier from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 4, 300 miles (6, 880 kms) away in California.
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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.
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