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Yao! As in, wow! If there was a five-year plan for Yao Ming, the dividends are rolling in here in Year 5. The altitudinous center is playing the best basketball of his career, the Houston Rockets are off to a terrific start, and, well, with Shaquille O'Neal on the sidelines, there isn't a better pivot in the league. (With apologies ...
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A private manned rocket soared into space for a second time yesterday, landing successfully after an unexpectedly bumpy ride that nearly meant an early end to the team&#39;s bid to win a $10 million prize.
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By Irene KlotzCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- NASA managers had their fingers crossed on Monday in hopes that this week's planned launch of the U.S.
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RBC, 09.11.2004, Moscow 09:25:54.Russia has successfully launched a new model of booster rocket, the Soyuz-2-1A. The rocket blasted off at 9:30 pm from the Plesetsk launch pad carrying a satellite model.
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The Air Force is scheduled to launch a new Delta 4 rocket here Saturday afternoon in a test that will help determine whether it can become a &quot;heavy lift
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The first planned launch attempt on Friday December 14 was pushed back due to poor weather conditions. The launch team is now awaiting the first available date on the range to reschedule the launch.
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The race to send privately owned rockets into space heated up yesterday with the second successful test of a craft built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Despite discouraging weather forecasts, NASA ordered technicians to begin fueling shuttle Discovery around noon today and to prepare the crew for tonight's blastoff.
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By Martin Merzer and Phil Long, The Miami Herald  Jun. 3--CAPE CANAVERAL -- It's a whole different kind of launch countdown: More than eight years and . . . still counting for many NASA astronauts who have done everything except, you know, fly in space.
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Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by a private rocket plane&#39;s dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the
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The first test launch of a new rocket carrier, the Soyuz-2 (Rus), was carried out successfully today from the Plesetsk cosmodrome [in Arkhangelsk Region] at 2130 [Moscow time, 1830 gmt].
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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.  &nbsp;  The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.  &nbsp;  Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design, said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrows bid for the X Prize. It went really well and everything worked as it should. ...
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LOS ANGELES NASA is is hoping to up the ante when it comes to speed. Later today it&#39;ll set loose its third X-43-A &quot;scramjet&quot; over the Pacific Ocean.
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The first privately funded manned rocket to reach space completed the first half of a $10 million flight competition yesterday by soaring to an altitude of
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By ORLANDO SENTINEL  NASA finally could get good weather this week for the planned launch of space shuttle Atlantis.  Meteorologists are predicting an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions for Wednesday's scheduled liftoff.
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By Bill Geroux, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Dec. 16--WALLOPS ISLAND A 69-foot Minotaur I rocket lifted off from Virginia's Eastern Shore at dawn today on a brilliant plume of white flame and delivered two satellites safely into orbit.
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By SONJA BARISIC  ATLANTIC, Va. - Spectators cheered as a rocket carrying two experimental satellites blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, creating a blazing streak across the sky just before sunrise.