North Korea contends the April 5 missile firing was a satellite launch to which it was entitled under international law.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Japanese diplomats said their government is likely to call for an emergency meeting of the U.N.Security Council immediately following the North Korean launch to discuss what punitive actions against Pyongyang should be pursued.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

It needed much more power than the rockets used to launch the one-man Mercury and the two-man Gemini flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The Philippine Department of Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute plan to launch a free service next month.

VOA: special.2010.08.17

The new launch vehicle would be used to carry the supplies and equipment needed to explore space beyond the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Borman and Lovell continued to circle the Earth, day after day, as workers hurried to meet the new launch date.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Virgin Galactic expects to spend more than four hundred million dollars for five commercial spaceships and launch vehicles.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Western nations are concerned that Iran could use the missile technology to launch a nuclear weapon, which Iran is suspected of building.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Next year, the Chinese plan to launch a small space laboratory to practice docking of spacecraft in orbit.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Helen Murray Free is known for helping to launch organizations that help increase public interest in science.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

They rested for a while. Then they began to prepare to launch the lander for the return flight to the orbiting command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Now the two sides were racing to see who could launch the first human space traveler.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

It would use one of several dependable military rockets to launch a small, one-man spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

There was what seemed to be a minor problem during the ground tests before launch.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

That tiny part sent a signal to computers that the launch had taken place.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Space officials decided the weather was safe enough for them to launch the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

They provided one and a half billion dollars to launch the pneumococcal vaccine project.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

Next he went north to Chicago,Illinois, to launch efforts to improve poor neighborhoods.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

The army opened the V-2 launch program to American scientists at several universities.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

He said the North Korean launch proves the need for nations to cooperate to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to remove those that already exist.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Also,Microsoft plans to launch its seventh version of Windows this October.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

So,they decided to launch the next flight, Gemini Seven,instead of waiting.

VOA: special.2009.06.24