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.
And some are politically telling: the empty highway from Pyongyang, people piling onto trucks for transportation, postcards showing soldiers attacking Americans, banners praising the scientists who sent 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?
The three-stage rocket put a satellite into space in what was Pyongyang's first successful test of such technology.
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.
Pyongyang used a three-stage rocket to put a satellite into space last year.
The high-profile visit comes just weeks after North Korea launched a long-range rocket to send a satellite into space.
SpaceShip Two will use its hybrid rocket motor to propel itself into space.
It came weeks after Pyongyang successfully used a rocket to put a satellite into space, a move condemned by the UN as a banned test of missile technology.
The test came weeks after Pyongyang successfully used a rocket to put a satellite into space, a move condemned by the UN as a banned test of missile technology.
North Korea says the rocket carried a communications satellite into space, but the US and North Korea's neighbours have long believed such operations represent attempts by Pyongyang to develop long-range missiles.
Long-range rocket launches designed to send satellites into space in 2009 and 2012 were widely considered covert tests of missile technology, and North Korea has conducted three underground nuclear tests.
North Korea's explanation that the rocket, will put a satellite into space is one it has used in two of its three previous tests of long-range missiles, each of which brought international condemnation and economic penalties.
Then in December it successfully launched a satellite into space from a multistage rocket, a move that was widely viewed as another test of the country's long-range missile technology.
Pyongyang is angry over tough new international sanctions over its Dec. 12 rocket launch that also put a satellite into space, and it has accused its rivals of applying double standards toward the two Koreas' space programs.
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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Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, made a surprise four-day trip to Pyongyang, where he met with officials and toured computer labs in January, just weeks after North Korea launched a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket.
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