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The first RCMP officer to launch an investigation focusing on Robert Pickton says he just couldn't gather enough firm evidence required to launch a full-scale investigation of the suspected killer. More...

A New Democratic MP had little success Friday persuading Conservatives to launch an inquiry into why cod stocks collapsed two decades ago. More...

A security company has demonstrated how to reverse-engineer a Microsoft patch in order to launch a denial-of-service attack on Windows DNS Server. More...

Washington (CNN) -- NASA is set to launch a satellite Friday, starting a three-year mission to help better understand climate change. NASA says it will launch the Aquarius/SAC-D Sea Surface Salinity satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. For the next three years, the Aquarius...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sitting in a wheelchair atop NASA's launch control center with other astronaut families, wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords watched her husband launch into space Monday aboard space shuttle Endeavour. And she smiled. Inside Endeavour somewhere is a handwritten...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's countdown clocks began ticking again Friday for the next-to-last space shuttle launch, delayed two weeks ago by an electrical problem aboard Endeavour. Forecasters put the odds of good weather for Monday morning's launch at 70 percent: the main concerns are stiff...

NASA's space shuttles are dragging their tails toward retirement. The high-profile voyage of Endeavour — the next-to-last space shuttle flight led by the husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — is off until at least next Sunday because of a technical problem. The latest culprit, believed...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour's final launch is off until at least the end of the week because technicians need to replace a switch box in the engine compartment, NASA said Sunday. The six astronauts — led by commander Mark Kelly — wasted no time heading back to Houston...

Just a few hours from liftoff, NASA fueled space shuttle Endeavour for one last ride into orbit Friday as hundreds of thousands of visitors converged on the coast for prime viewing spots. The launch team began loading more than a half-million gallons of fuel into Endeavour at dawn, moments...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An astronaut who was bumped from space shuttle Discovery's final flight following a bicycle crash told his orbiting friends Friday that he's with them "in spirit." Injured just last month, Timothy Kopra hobbled on crutches into Mission Control and called Discovery's six...

-- Weather and conditions permitting, space shuttle Discovery will lift off Thursday on its final flight, NASA announced Friday. The six-member crew will deliver a storage module, a science rig and spare parts to the international space station during its 11-day mission. Originally scheduled...

-- North Korea has completed the structures at a second missile launch site in the northwest part of the country, a U.S. official said Thursday. The admission comes on the same day that new satellite imagery, taken by GeoEye on January 10, was released showing a tower, a movable launch pad and...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/01/20/sot.delta.rocket.launch.UNITEDLAUNCH -- The largest rocket ever launched from the West Coast went into space Thursday afternoon carrying a secret "national security" satellite, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California announced. The 23-story tall Delta...

-- Iran is planning to launch a new satellite into orbit by the end of March, according to the country's semi-official Fars News Agency. Wednesday's announcement for the planned launch of the Fajr -- or "Dawn" -- satellite follows a recent statement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on...

- NASA officials Tuesday said they have found the root cause of cracks in the external tank's support beams and expect to have the space shuttle Discovery ready for a possible launch in late February. John Shannon, the shuttle program manager, said extensive testing by engineers found that the...

NASA is hoping to launch space shuttle Discovery on its final voyage no earlier than Feb. 24, after months of delays due to cracked fuel tank supports, the space agency announced today (Jan. 11). Top space shuttle officials announced the new launch target today after reviewing ongoing work to...

NASA said it had again postponed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, already pushed back to February, to an undetermined date to allow more time for repairs. "The decision was made today to allow the teams additional time and delay the next launch opportunity out of the early February...

NASA said more repairs are needed on space shuttle Discovery's fuel tank. NASA engineers will repair small cracks found on the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank -- a development that could further delay its launch. "The X-rays showed four additional small cracks on three stringers...

Commercial space capsule test. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/12/07/zarrella.spacex.launch.cnn If all goes as planned, earthlings could witness the launch Wednesday of the first commercial spacecraft to orbit Earth and re-enter successfully. The launch window for the first...

A technician examines the area of the external tank where foam was removed Wednesday. Engineers will need to repair two newly discovered cracks on part of Space Shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank before the next launch attempt at Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA said Wednesday. The roughly...