Rocket launches in new commercial venture
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - A commercial   rocket packed with cargo blasted off from a desert launch range   in New Mexico on Monday, ushering in what the organizers hope   will be a new era of cheap public access to space.
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(CBS/AP) The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere again in an unexpectedly bumpy ride Wednesday in the first half of a bid to earn a $10 million prize.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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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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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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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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The rocket was launched from the Alcantara base in northern Brazil to conduct experiments just outside Earth&#39;s atmosphere. The launch Saturday came 14 months after a deadly rocket explosion at the Altcantara
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An updated version of Russia&#39;s venerable Soyuz rocket took its first flight Monday, placing a dummy satellite into orbit during a successful qualification launch.
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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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NASA&#39;s Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 pm EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Boeing&#39;s massive new Delta four Heavy rocket is in space after launching from its seaside pad in Cape Canaveral Tuesday.
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The space shuttle Atlantis has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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A privately funded spacecraft appeared to rocket past its target altitude more than 60 miles above California&#39;s high desert yesterday
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Iran fired a rocket from its newly inaugurated space center Monday, laying the groundwork for what it says will be the future launch of its first domestically produced satellite, the semi-official FARS news agency reported.
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MOSCOW: Russia launched a new-generation space booster rocket today in a move that could eventually help send civilian cargoes into space, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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While entrepreneurs explore how to put ordinary folks into space, federal officials are pondering how to regulate the emerging commercial space industry.
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A new inflatable, unmanned test module for a proposed private space station was launched into orbit Thursday aboard a Russian rocket, the U.S. company developing the technology said.