Brazil Successfully Launches First Rocket Into Space
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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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A Russian rocket carrying two cosmonauts and one US astronaut launched successfully Thursday on a mission to the International Space Station.
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Science & environment: Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil's recent 'great achievement' of halting rainforest destruction
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thatshortkid writes &quot;The Washington Times is reporting on Brazil&#39;s first successful space launch. Since it is closer to the equator, the task of getting up to space is easier, meaning much more cargo room over fuel.
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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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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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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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Russia launched a new-generation space booster rocket on Monday in a move that could eventually help send civilian cargoes into space, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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France launched an Ariane rocket on Saturday, lifting into orbit the new-generation military satellite Helios II A and six microsatellites for different scientific purposes, said reports reaching Kourou, French Guiana.
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While North Korea and Iraq are the hotspots in the media today, regarding WMD, Brazil has quietly launched a rocket from AlcÃ¢ntara to space and has built an uranium enrichment facility in Rezende. Does it mean an ICBM is on the way?
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By Angus MacSwan SAO PAULO, Brazil  - It all started sooptimistically for Brazil's peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
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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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The two astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) complete the first space walk of their mission.
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Brazil has successfully launched a test rocket, 14 months after a more powerful one exploded before lift-off killing 21 people, Brazilian space officials said on Sunday.
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A MANNED private rocketship burst through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere into space today after a hair-raising ascent, putting it half-way towards winning a $US10 million ($13.
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After a nerve-racking stay on its Cape Canaveral launch pad with uncomfortably close brushes with two powerful hurricanes, a Boeing Delta 2 rocket finally thundered into space this morning where it successfully deployed a Global Positioning System
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PARIS, France -- Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon has successfully entered lunar orbit, a key milestone in its 13-month trip into space.