Along with the racy Maxim shoot, she was recently lavishly feted with vodka and medals from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, attended a space rocket launch in Kazakhstan, is an advisor to a Moscow-based bank and is selling action figures in her femme fatale likeness.
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Shuttle Endeavour, which had been docked with the Mir space station, unhooked on Thursday, about a half hour after the Russian space agency launched a Soyuz rocket with three new crew members for the space station.
Far from the common perspective owing to American media, culture, and corporatism, I do not believe that getting a job should be like launching a rocket into space.
From a small island in the Pacific, SpaceX managed to send a rocket into space.
Last year it failed in an attempt to send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket.
Last Friday, SpaceX, another company started by Tesla founder Elon Musk, sent a rocket into space.
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Earlier this year, it fired a rocket into space, the first to be designed, paid for and launched entirely with private money.
Runners are a dime a dozen in the mobile space and thankfully Tap Rocket succeeds at being a fun little flight of fancy without any overbearing microtransaction model or pretentions.
In April last year, Seoul sent its first astronaut into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.
If Russians could get a rocket ship into space, and lead on nuclear weaponry, what else could their scientists pull off?
He said a reusable rocket could make space launches 100 times cheaper.
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Industry officials said in recent weeks plans to use a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule supplied by SpaceX, imploded.
His Genesis I spacecraft went into space that July on a Russian rocket.
On 18 August, the week before the loss of the space station mission, a Proton rocket failed to put a communications satellite in its proper orbit.
To get there, the agency is building the Space Launch System, a colossal rocket capable of putting in orbit all the tonnes of equipment that will be needed on such a venture.
At the same time, the agency is working with its industry contractors to develop a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule to take Americans beyond Earth orbit to an asteroid and ultimately Mars.
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In contrast, NASA's SLS is a heavy-lift rocket designed to lift a 130-ton payload into space.
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He joked that initially "we had a tiny little factory" near a suburban strip mall, where space was so scarce that all the stages of a single rocket couldn't fit into the same building.
The company is developing a heavy-lift rocket with twice the cargo capability of the space shuttle, and also dreams of building a spacecraft that could carry a crew to Mars.
In 1996 Lockheed won competitions to build a replacement for the space shuttle, an infra-red satellite-warning system and a new rocket-launcher for the American air force.
Verne's vehicle is not a rocket but a projectile launched into space by a gigantic cannon.
Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne is the sole DIY rocket to put a human into space.
Its movements had all the hallmarks of being a spent rocket casing or other piece of space junk.
The space industry of 2006 is like a rocket about to launch on its maiden voyage--nobody knows whether it will take off or just blow up on the pad.
And while you didn't exactly have to be a rocket scientist to join the original space missions (the U.S. Mercury and Apollo programs recruited many test pilots), if you want to stand a chance against other heavily-qualified applicants, it's certainly an advantage.
It is launching a fleet of spy satellites and plans to test a rocket that can reenter the atmosphere--officially, for space shuttle research.
And despite all the hype around space tourism these days, no one wanted a rocket ship.
Pizza Hut plans this month to put its 30-foot logo on a Russian Proton rocket that will zoom to the International Space Station.
Webster, 47, learned about the risks of betting on overcomplex space technology more than a decade ago, when he and two Harvard Business School classmates dreamed up the idea of launching commercial satellites with a rocket carried in the cargo bay of the space shuttle.
Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 program, relies on a modified miniature version of the same rocket motors the space shuttle uses to reposition itself in space: hydrogen peroxide is burned in the presence of a catalyst to produce pure steam, which is then used to move the arm.
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