Virginia Spaceport Launches Rocket
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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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SPACE.com / A Russian rocket launched the world's fourth space tourist and two astronauts into orbit early Monday morning on a two-day trip bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
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: MOJAVE, United States ( A private manned rocketship blasted through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere into space after a hair-raising corkscrew ascent on a flight aimed at capturing a 10-million-dollar prize.
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - A rocket   packed with cargo is set to blast off into space from a desert   launch range in New Mexico, ushering in what its backers say is   a new era of cheap public access to the stars.
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By A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 7--Virginians might catch a glimpse of tonight's unusual nighttime  launching of the space shuttle Discovery, if it lifts off as planned.
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Swift, a satellite space lab that will hunt and study the most violent explosions ever seen in the universe, has finally launched from Cape Canaveral.
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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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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A spacecraft that could serve as a model for interplanetary transport blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on Thursday on a mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
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The first woman space tourist, US citizen Anousheh Ansari, blasts off on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
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Brazil has successfully launched a test rocket from the Alcantara base in northern Brazil on Saturday, October 23. The two-stage VSB-30 prototype flew for seven minutes at an altitude of about 100 kilometers above the earth.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Technicians began filling shuttle Discovery's fuel tank for a launch attempt at 11:38 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, officials said.
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A cargo craft is successfully launched to  carry much-needed food supplies to the International Space Station.
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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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A Russian rocket carrying a US-Russian space crew on a two-day flight to the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday.
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An American space tourist bound for the International Space Station (ISS) has begun training for his fall launch aboard a Russian rocket.
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By Amanda Codispoti, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Dec. 7--Roanokers should be able to look to the sky tonight and see space  shuttle Discovery as it makes its way to the international space station.