But as the seconds tick away to the firing up of a revolutionary new British space engine, it's hard not to speculate on its chances of success.
For inspiration, take a look at a 33-acre (floor space) engine factory that opened 18 months ago in rural Dundee, Mich.
In the search engine space you have lots of choices, more than the average person will ever need.
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To conserve space Issigonis put the engine transversely driving the front wheels, this was a radical design but allowed a very short bonnet and gave more interior space, enough for four adults.
The search engine competitive space is very normal.
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Among the data stolen are operational details of the Space Shuttle including performance and engine data.
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We weren't able to peek in the trunk, but we're told the new engine provides more space for your junk than the Karma's current arrangement.
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After the Bush Administration announced last year that the space shuttle would be retired in 2010, NASA's Stennis Space Center, which performs engine testing on it, went into action, wooing more private enterprises to its 140, 000-acre grounds.
Meanwhile, the rendering engine resides in a special space that controls what resources within the computer can be read or written to.
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The engine shed will house an exhibition space, 80-seat restaurant and conference facilities.
Ms. Marseille said in an interview Tuesday that she was entering a parking space near a library when she heard the engine roar.
The search engine giant did not even enter the tablet space until it released the first iteration of the Nexus 7 last summer.
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The major American manufacturer Lockheed Martin was the first to use the high thrusting (635 newtons) Leros-1b on its telecoms platforms, but the engine has also found favour at the US space agency down the years.
Its disruptive technology is a novel air-breathing and rocket engine that would enable the ship to go to space in one leap.
How can this big, amply furnished front-engine berlinetta, with nearly 18 cubes of cargo space in the back (with bench seat folded), outpace a carbonized wraith of a car like the Enzo?
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The UK Space Agency engaged propulsion experts at the European Space Agency (Esa) to run the rule over the company's engine design.
"In French Guiana, this will be same - plus, we will have the capacity to telecommand to stop the engine, " explained Jean-Marc Astorg, from the French space agency (Cnes), who has led the Soyuz in French Guiana project.
The uncanny fusion of actual and virtual space utilizes dual stereoscopic projections, mirrors, a double-sided projection and game engine software customized by the artists.
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Without an internal combustion engine or transmission tunnel, the interior of Model S has more cargo space than any other sedan in its class and includes a second trunk under the hood.
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"We are very pleased that the engine started and continued to thrust, " said Marc Rayman, Deep Space 1's chief mission engineer and deputy mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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For instance, the Audi A8 not only has a 372 horsepower engine that provides exhilarating driving characteristics, but it also has an aluminum space frame that lowers vehicle weight considerably versus a steel chassis.
Nazi aerospace engineers pioneered the jet engine and their early work on rockets laid the foundations for the post-war space programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union.
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SpaceX was quick to make the point that the ability to carry on despite an engine failure demonstrates a big advantage of multi-engined rockets like the Falcon (Space Shuttles and Saturn V moon rockets could both do something similar).
The UK Space Agency initiated a review of Skylon and as part of that assessment it asked propulsion engineering experts at the European Space Agency to run the rule over the spaceplane and, in particular, its breakthrough Sabre engine design.
The company also is developing four-wheel-drive technology that powers two wheels with an internal combustion engine and two with an electric motor, eliminating the need for a drive train that takes up floor space, Ho said.
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