Brazil launches first rocket since accident
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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 Sunday.
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The space shuttle Atlantis took off on a mission to resume construction of the International Space Station for the first time since the Columbia disaster.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Rescuers on Sunday cleared the thick jungle around the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed in the Amazon with 155 people on board, opening the way for teams to begin retrieving bodies.
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Brazil ended Ghana&#039;s scrappy World Cup debut Tuesday with three streaking goals, the first an early flash by Ronaldo that made him the most prolific scorer in tournament history.
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Astronaut Leroy Chiao and Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:06 pm EDT Wednesday, right on time.
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The first test launch of a new rocket carrier, the Soyuz-2 (Rus), was carried out successfully today from the Plesetsk cosmodrome [in Arkhangelsk Region] at 2130 [Moscow time, 1830 gmt].
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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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By Mike Schneider  Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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The American space agency Nasa says the first space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster of 2003 is to be launched next May or early June.
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Sport: Fifa confirms that Brazil will host tournament for first time since 1950.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 9 -- The shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Saturday on a long-awaited mission to resume assembly of the space station three-and-a-half years after the 2003 Columbia disaster.
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China has launched an experimental navigation satellite into space, state press reported, the nation's first space launch since it tested a satellite-killing missile last month.
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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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The space shuttle  Discovery soared into space on Saturday on a column of fire  that briefly dispelled the darkness over the Kennedy Space  Center in NASA's first night launch since the Columbia  disaster.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Rescuers recovered the first two bodies from the wreckage of a crashed Brazilian passenger plane in the Amazon jungle on Sunday and reported that none of the 155 people on board had survived, the Brazilian Airforce said.
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Reuters Rio de Janeiro Nov 18: World champions Brazil crashed to a shock 1-0 defeat in Ecuador yesterday while home wins for Peru, Colombia and Uruguay kept the South American World Cup qualifying group wide open.
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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.