Iran Launches Rocket to Commemorate New Space Center
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Iran fired a research rocket into space Monday to mark the opening of its space center, a move that was immediately condemned by the United States.
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Iran has successfully tested a &quot;strategic missile&quot; and delivered it to its armed forces, state-run radio reported yesterday.
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The launch of Mir, a last gasp of Soviet pride, heralds the dawn of long-term space habitation by humans.
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A recoverable science experimental satellite is launched atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province, northwest China Aug. 29, 2004.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft   was set to blast off on Monday carrying a woman who will   accomplish a trio of space firsts: the first female tourist,   first female Muslim, and first Iranian in orbit.
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By MIKE ECKEL BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - An Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur took off Monday on a Russian rocket bound for the international space station, achieving her dream of becoming the the world's first paying female space tourist.
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Iran says it has successfully fired its first rocket into space, though no details of its type or range are known.
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A rocket Iran launched into orbit this month to prepare for putting a domestically made research satellite into space has successfully sent scientific data back to Earth, state media reported on Sunday.
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Iran's announcement that it launched a research rocket has called new attention to a space program that Tehran says is peaceful but which some fear aims to produce long-range ballistic missiles that could reach Europe or the United States
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A senior researcher at an Israeli air and space institute says Iran's successful test of a space rocket Sunday is a wake up call for Israeli leaders.
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A rocket has been launched carrying a satellite to track and study the most powerful explosions seen in the universe since the Big Bang.
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25 September 2004 -- The Iranian defense minister announced today that the country has successfully test-fired a strategic, long-range missile and delivered the weapon to its armed forces.
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Definitely not a missile. Honest. Iran distracted attention from its nuclear programme this weekend, by announcing it had shot off a rocket into space. Or, according to who you believe, it had tested a dirty great missile.â¦
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Iran has launched a sub-orbital rocket for scientific research not a missile capable of reaching space as earlier reported, an aerospace official told an Iranian news agency on Sunday.
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Iran said Saturday it successfully tested a ``strategic missile&#39;&#39; and delivered it to its armed forces, state-run radio reported.
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Europe's most powerful rocket, carrying a payload of precious satellites, soared into space Saturday from its South American base in a successful launch more than two years after its inaugural flight ended in disaster.
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president, said the rocket had a range of 1,250 miles and added: &quot;Iran is determined to improve its military capabilities.