Va. Spaceport Launches Its 1st Rocket
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By SONJA BARISIC ATLANTIC, Va. - A rocket carrying two experimental satellites into orbit blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, blazing a streak across the sky just before sunrise.
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A rocket that was the first launched from a commercial spaceport in New Mexico &#151; and the first to crash &#151; has been found in the desert, company officials said Saturday.
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Two US astronauts aboard the orbiting International Space Station carried out the first of three space walks, NASA announced.
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The first rocket launched from New Mexico's spaceport failed to reach space Monday, wobbling and dropping back to Earth barely a tenth of the way into its journey.
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By JON W. GLASS  By JON W. GLASS  The Virginian-Pilot  WALLOPS ISLAND -- Early this morning, for the second time in five days, the Air Force and NASA will attempt to launch a Minotaur I rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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By Sonja Barisic  ATLANTIC, Va. - The launch of a rocket carrying two satellites for the Air Force and NASA was scrubbed early Monday because of a problem with the software for one of the satellites, officials said.
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Washington, D.C., start-up Orbital Outfitters shows off a prototype of its first pressurized suit for the commercial space industry at the 2007 X Prize Cup.
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An Atlas 5 rocket launched spaceward late Thursday, hauling a clutch of six military research satellites into orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
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By Bill Geroux, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND -- The launch of a 69-foot orbital rocket from a  regional spaceport on the Eastern Shore was scrubbed yesterday because of a  software glitch in a satellite the rocket carries.
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One of the most powerful rockets ever constructed, a massive Boeing Co. Delta IV Heavy vehicle that is designed to be able to lift supersized military satellites into orbit, was successfully launched Tuesday at Cape Canaveral.
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By Bill Geroux, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Dec. 16--W ALLOPS ISLAND  -- NASA and the Air Force said yesterday that they will try again this morning to launch a 69-foot orbital rocket from the regional spaceport on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
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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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The first woman space tourist, US citizen Anousheh Ansari, blasts off on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
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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 DENA POTTER  RICHMOND, Va. - Air Force officials on Thursday cleared an experimental satellite for the first rocket launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, after a software glitch had grounded it. The launch was rescheduled for Saturday.
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MOSCOW: Russia launched a new-generation space booster rocket today in a move that could eventually help send civilian cargoes into space, Itar-Tass news agency reported.