Va. Spaceport Launches 1st Rocket
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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.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 8  /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched six satellites at 10:10 p.m., EST, for the U.S. Air Force, marking the first use of the Atlas for an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program mission.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA officials hoped an opening in the cloud cover would allow space shuttle Discovery to lift off Thursday for the first night launch in four years, starting a complex mission to rewire the international space station.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif. Sept. 29, 2004 - After recovering from a wild corkscrew roll on its ascent, the first private manned rocket soared to space and returned safely to Earth on Wednesday in a bid to earn a $10 million prize.
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The first woman space tourist, US citizen Anousheh Ansari, blasts off on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
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By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND -- Disappointed Air Force officials say it will be Thursday "at the very best" before their Minotaur I rocket will blast off here for space.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif. A test pilot yesterday made a successful foray into space marked by a white-knuckle ascent in which his rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in 16 seconds.
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By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 10--All systems appeared to be "go" for tomorrow's planned 7 a.m. liftoff of one of the biggest rockets ever launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, 40 miles south of Ocean City.
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The first spacecraft with an Ecliptic RocketCamâ¢ video system on board is scheduled for launch around 11:15 am PDT by a Pegasus XL winged rocket on October 26 (Tuesday) off the California coast near Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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A privately-built space station prototype successfully launched into orbit Thursday from a Russian missile base, kicking off the second test flight for the U.S. firm Bigelow Aerospace.
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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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NASA launches its first space shuttle mission of the year tonight after completing repairs to the spacecraft's external tank caused by a hailstorm.
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The space shuttle Atlantis has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven rocketed into orbit Tuesday in pursuit of the international space station, where a formidable construction job awaits them.