Falcon 9, a private space rocket that might eventually carry people into orbit, has just passed its first test.

猎鹰9号刚通过对它的第一次考验，这枚私人公司的火箭最终可能将人送进轨道。

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The ROK's first space rocket was moved to its launch pad for scheduled blastoff on August 19, the state-run aerospace institute said Monday.

韩国航空宇宙研究院17日称，韩国首枚运载火箭已被运往发射台，预计19日发射。

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South Korea's first space rocket named Naro will be launched on August 11, said the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, according to South Korean media.

据韩国媒体报道，韩国教育科学技术部表示，该国首枚运载火箭“罗老号”的发射日期定为8月11日。

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Its Titan rocket could lift three times as much weight into space as the Atlas rocket used for the Mercury flights.

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There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

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Space debris made news on March twelfth when a part of an old rocket motor about ten centimeters in size threatened the International Space Station.

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Along with the racy Maxim shoot, she was recently lavishly feted with vodka and medals from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, attended a space rocket launch in Kazakhstan, is an advisor to a Moscow-based bank and is selling action figures in her femme fatale likeness.

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Shuttle Endeavour, which had been docked with the Mir space station, unhooked on Thursday, about a half hour after the Russian space agency launched a Soyuz rocket with three new crew members for the space station.

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Last Friday, SpaceX, another company started by Tesla founder Elon Musk, sent a rocket into space.

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