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On August 24, a Progress M-12M space freighter carrying food and other items to the space station broke up over southern Siberia after failing to separate from its Soyuz-U carrier rocket, RIA Novosti reported.
CNN: Russia postpones new manned space station mission
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"A safe flight orbit has been chosen so that carrier rocket debris to be generated during the flight would not have any impact on neighboring countries, " Korea Central News Agency, the North's state-run news service, said Friday.
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The intention was to give the US a crew-carrier and rocket technology that could go beyond low-Earth orbit to more distant targets, back to the Moon and further.
BBC: Obama reviews post-shuttle plans
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The proposed Ares I rocket and its crew carrier called Orion are both at an advanced stage.
BBC: Underfunding shackles Nasa vision
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As a matter of fact, they already launched that aircraft carrier we bought them, along with a Tiangong-1 rocket that lifted the first module of a planned Chinese space station to orbit from a launch site in the Jiuquan, Gansu province.
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The vehicle was dropped from a carrier aircraft high above California's Mojave Desert and ignited its rocket engine to go supersonic for a few seconds.
BBC: Science correspondent, BBC News