However, it was the second failed space launch in Russia in less than 10 days.
After all, the Soviet strategic rocket forces are responsible for space launch operations.
The Dongfanghong IV will be launched in 2007 from the Xichang Space Launch Centre in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Unfortunately, the flow of such sensitive Western information will not be limited to that involving the design and operation of modern space launch systems.
The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago.
Nasa's new Space Launch System (SLS) is a multi-billion-dollar venture to take humans beyond the International Space Station (ISS) and the confines of low-Earth orbit.
Then, providing they can reduce space launch costs by a large factor, they may be able to exploit new business opportunities, including passenger traffic to outer space.
The US space agency is scheduled to retire its space shuttles next year, and has begun the development of a new human space launch "architecture" called Constellation.
The Space Launch System, or SLS for short, is NASA's go-to rocket to carry NASA's planned Orion capsule and possibly other future payloads beyond low-Earth orbit.
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The mind-boggling expense, the riskiness and the fragility of our existing space launch capabilies were hammered home to all of us in the aftermath of the Challenger explosion.
After all, the United States reached an agreement with Russia last month that explicitly authorizes the sale of "space launch vehicles" and associated "facilities" to anyone it wishes.
Following completion of the current Ares V super-heavy-lift rocket program, the Space Launch System, I believe that the government should commercialize all future launch vehicle development and operations.
Such issues led Congress to draft the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, which was designed to make clear that suborbital craft should be regulated as rockets.
The new mega-rocket, called the Space Launch System, passed a series of reviews that laid out the technical, performance, cost and schedule requirements for the heavy-lift booster.
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"President Bush has, in effect, made the promotion of a Soviet commercial space launch capability a higher priority than the creation of a viable domestic capability, " said Frank J.
This servicing plan should free up resources for Nasa to build an astronaut Space Launch System capable of travelling beyond the station, to the Moon, asteroids and to Mars.
Organized with all the precision of a NASA space launch, Systems Go Rockets 2013 attracted groups of young rocket scientists assembled to show off their knowledge of physics and engineering.
The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experiments to Earth's orbit and destinations beyond.
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To get there, the agency is building the Space Launch System, a colossal rocket capable of putting in orbit all the tonnes of equipment that will be needed on such a venture.
The Space Launch System will give the nation a safe, affordable and sustainable means of reaching beyond our current limits and opening up new discoveries from the unique vantage point of 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.
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"But our concerns with Iran's development of space launch vehicle technologies are obviously well-known: Any space launch vehicle capable of placing an object in orbit is directly relevant to the development of long-range ballistic missiles, " she told reporters.
While NASA works with U.S. industry partners to develop these capabilities, the agency also is developing the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS), a crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration.
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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.
If 2018 is a little too long for you to wait until your next space-launch fix, then fear not.
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Nothing wrong in that, you might say, but plans for India's first inter-continental ballistic missile depend heavily on the technology developed for its space-launch vehicle.
Just as CNN has covered every space shuttle launch extensively since the shuttle's first liftoff in 1981, CNN Interactive now covers shuttle launches on its Web site.
The Pittsburg State number 4 team, winner in the college division, will receive a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to view a Space Shuttle 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.
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