- The seven astronauts of shuttle Atlantis pulled on their bright orange flight suits today, preparing for a cliffhanger final countdown as a weather front slowly approached the launch pad ... "We're just watching the weather, and we're cautiously ...

With the construction and launching of this satellite, the Islamic Republic of Iran is the 11th country that has the technology to launch a satellite to the space ... [The launching of] This research rocket is part of the preliminary stages of ...

Shortly before launch, Shuttle Commander Dominic Gorie thanked the teams that helped make the launch possible and then said: God's truly blessed us with a beautiful night to launch so let's light 'em up and give them a show. Joining Gorie on ...

" Alley said she intends to develop her own weight-loss brand with plans to launch in 2009. (c) 2008 Deseret News (Salt Lake ...

" No problems surfaced during the fueling process, a major relief considering the problems that caused NASA to scrub two launch attempts to launch Atlantis in December ... High clouds drifted over the Kennedy Space Center and forecasters said ...

"Certainly, no launch can be any more momentous than the launch of Columbus, which brings to the space station truly international capability and participation," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. *** (c) 2008 Record, The; Bergen ...

THE widow of TV "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin is to launch non- lethal research of whales in Antarctic waters next year, in a bid to shame Japan's annual scientific cull of more than 1,000 whales. (c) 2007 Evening Mail; Birmingham ...

State-owned Radio Comoros has not been not reporting the ongoing AU-backed military operations on the island of Anjouan even as major international news agencies reported the launch of the operations and the capture of Anjouan's three main towns of ...

) State-owned Radio Comoros has not been reporting the ongoing AU- backed military operations on the island of Anjouan even as major international news agencies reported the launch of the operations and the capture of Anjouan's three main towns of ...

"We're thinking about launching an air-traffic controller here pretty soon, just to keep it all straight," deputy station manager Kirk Shireman joked shortly before Endeavour's March 11 launch ... NASA's next shuttle mission, slated for ...

11 attacks should not have been used as a pretext for the United States to launch wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to her comments published Monday in a pan-Arab newspaper. In her interview with Al Hayat, the actress also bemoaned what she ...

But past successes at preventing the shuttle's fuel tank from losing big chunks of foam insulation during liftoff and the accuracy of heat shield inspections convinced managers the night launch was a good choice. A new photographic flash system ...

" No problems surfaced during the fueling process, a major relief considering the problems that caused NASA to scrub two launch attempts to launch Atlantis in December ... Puffy clouds rolled slowly over the Kennedy Space Center and ...

The Sineva, designed by the Makeyev Design Bureau and brought into service on 9 July 2007, was launched by a submerged Northern Fleet submarine Tula from the Barents Sea, while the launch of a ground- mobile RS-24 carrying individually targetable ...

The USS Lake Erie, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser with an Aegis weapons system, will launch an SM-3 tactical missile toward the satellite from west of Hawaii, the Pentagon said. If that missile misses, the Navy has two others on standby to ...