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WASHINGTON – A high-tech entrepreneur unveiled plans Tuesday to launch the world's most powerful rocket since man went to the moon. Space Exploration Technology has already sent the first private rocket and capsule into Earth's orbit as a commercial venture. It is now planning a rocket that...

-- The marching orders from Congress and the White House to NASA were pretty straightforward. Go out and build a new big rocket to replace the retiring space shuttle fleet. Unlike the shuttle, the new rocket has to be powerful enough to get out of low Earth orbit and carry humans to an...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AQABA, Jordan (Reuters) – Rockets from Egypt's Sinai, where Islamist militants have operated in the past, hit Israel's and Jordan's Red Sea port resorts on Monday, killing a Jordanian civilian and injuring three...

Rocket in place for space station mission BAIKONUR SPACE CENTER, Kazakhstan, (UPI) -- Russian space officials moved a Soyuz-FG rocket to its launch pad Sunday in preparation for its flight to the International Space Station later this week. The rocket will carry cosmonaut Yuri Yurchihin and...

NASA plans 'RockOn!' rocket workshop WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., (UPI) -- NASA says it expects 80 college students and professors from across the nation and Puerto Rico to attend a workshop to learn how to build small experiments. The weeklong workshop -- called "RockOn!" -- teaches the students how...

Fri Jan 29, 8:18 PM By The Canadian Press HARBOUR MILLE, N.L. - A woman who claims she saw three missiles whiz over Newfoundland's south coast dismisses suggestions the mysterious objects could have been model rockets and claims instead the truth is being covered up. Emmy Pardy said she...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – NASA has successfully blasted two probes into space on a landmark lunar exploration mission to scout water sources and landing sites in anticipation of sending mankind back to the moon in 2020. The launch marked "America's first step in a lasting return to the moon," a NASA...

SKorea expects NKorea rocket launch Saturday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEOUL (AFP) – South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said he expects the communist North to try to press ahead with a planned rocket launch Saturday, brushing off calls...