Rocket blasts into record books
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Amateur rocketeers who gathered in Scotland say they have successfully launched their biggest rocket yet.
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Boeing successfully launched the most powerful unmanned rocket ever on Tuesday when the 71-metre long Delta IV Heavy lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a fake satellite into orbit.
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In March, NASA (news - web sites) launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
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Spacewalk records are being set this week at the International Space Station.  Following Sunday's second spacewalk of the current series, Cmdr.
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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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Europe's most powerful rocket to date, the Ariane 5-ECA, blasts off from a spaceport in French Guiana.
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft  blasted off on Monday carrying a woman set to notch up three  space records: the first female tourist, first female Muslim,  and first Iranian in orbit.
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A stubby private rocket plane blasted through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere and into the history books on Monday, capturing a $10 million prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists.
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Hezbollah launched its deepest strikes yet into Israel on Wednesday, firing a record number of more than 160 rockets. An Israeli-American was killed as he fled for home by bicycle, and a stray rocket hit the West Bank for the first time.
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A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, clocked up a test flight on Tuesday at a world record speed 10 times faster than sound, NASA said.
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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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The Guinness Book of Records officially recognises the speed record set by Nasa's X-43A hypersonic aircraft.
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By staff writers and wires. NASA says it has broken the world speed record for powered flight with an experimental jet that has just flown at 10 times the speed of sound.
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Russia successfully launched a new model of booster rocket, the Soyuz-2, on Monday following two postponements. The rocket blasted off at 9:30 pm (1830 GMT) from the Plesetsk
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NASA&#39;s experimental X-43A, a sleek unpiloted forerunner to a routine space launcher or a blindingly fast airliner, streaked above the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday to establish a speed record for jet aircraft of about 6,600 mph.
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NPR.org, November 17, 2004 Â· A NASA research jet sets a new air speed record for air-breathing engines by traveling nearly 7,000 mph, or 10 times the speed of sound.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK LOS ANGELES - A rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific.