Rocket program deep in the red
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The United States military&#39;s new rocket program is $14.44 billion over budget and counting, raising questions about how long taxpayers can subsidize two of America&#39;s biggest
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A t-shirt with Roger Clemensâs name, the No. 22 on the back and the question âGot Rocket Fuel?â has taken on an unintended connotation since Clemens, known as the Rocket, was linked to steroid use.
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The first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space has been named Time magazine&#39;s &quot;Invention of the Year.&quot;.
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Definitely not a missile. Honest. Iran distracted attention from its nuclear program 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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How NASA turned to Americaâs basement brainstormers, workbench concocters and garage tinkerers to revive the space program.
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CANOGA PARK, Calif., Feb. 17  /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's RS-27A rocket engine powered five NASA scientific satellites into orbit today. The purpose of the mission is to unlock the mysteries of Earth's geomagnetic substorms.
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The first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space has been named Time magazine&#39;s âInvention of the Year.&#39;&#39;.
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America&#39;s new heavy-lifting rocket takes its much-anticipated test flight Saturday, if Mother Nature cooperates. The Boeing Delta 4-Heavy rocket was supposed to launch today, but the forecast for strong winds
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Time was you could get to the moon in a few days, and you can still do it if you have a really big rocket. But SMART-1, a washing machine-size spacecraft carrying an experimental engine, has taken the long way around.
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Alex Auld's recent memory of game action involves a whole lot of red.
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MOJAVE, Calif. - Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by a private rocket plane's dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the winner-take-all race into an annual competition that might further fuel imaginations...
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Kern County -- The first privately funded rocket to reach space completed the first half of a $10 million flight competition Wednesday by soaring to an altitude of 64 miles -- but only after enduring a white-knuckle series of barrel rolls.
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'Hypersonic tech vehicles' for test in 2009 DARPA*, the wacky Pentagon research bureau where it's always white-coat-and-propellor-hat Friday, has doled out $6m (as part of a $40m "increment" to an earlier "other transaction") to US aerospace colossus Lockheed. The payment is in support of the renewed US military hypersonic-plane programme, variously known as "Falcon" or "Blackswift".â¦
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Also: Nasa's Mars rovers--'biggest breakthrough' in science in 2004. [News.com Extra]
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A test pilot took a privately funded rocket to space and is now starting back, setting the stage to win a $10 million prize.
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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 dozen blind students from across the United States are at a summer camp this week working on a project most don't associate with the visually impaired - launching a NASA rocket.    The students are designing and preparing the rocket's payload at the National Federation of the Blind's Jernigan Institute in Baltimore...