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.
Last Friday, SpaceX, another company started by Tesla founder Elon Musk, sent a rocket into space.
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From a small island in the Pacific, SpaceX managed to send a rocket into space.
Industry officials said in recent weeks plans to use a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule supplied by SpaceX, imploded.
Earlier this year, it fired a rocket into space, the first to be designed, paid for and launched entirely with private money.
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.
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.
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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Bigelow, who launched a small prototype of the module in 2006 after licensing the patent from NASA, will rely on Boeing Co. and Southern California rocket developer Space Exploration Technologies to provide transportation.
We have teamed up with one of the most respected cyber-universities in the United States to develop a program to integrate the two sciences (cyber and physical security) into an environment similar to that of Space Camp at the Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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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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Since the retirement of its space shuttles, NASA has hired out supply missions to the International Space Station to the private rocket company SpaceX.
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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Until the eve of the launch, United States and Russian space officials argued about the overlap of the Soyuz rocket launch and the continued docking of U.S. space shuttle Endeavour at the space station.
Last year it failed in an attempt to send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket.
The launch of NASA's Deep Space 1 aboard Boeing Delta 7326 rocket is scheduled for Cape Canaveral, Florida.
It's almost the same mix as in the solid-rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle, and it's powerful stuff.
Russia's space agency chief said the August rocket failure was an "isolated" glitch caused by a fuel pipe blockage.
His Genesis I spacecraft went into space that July on a Russian rocket.
For a country that put a man on the moon and ran a taxi service to the International Space Station, this is not rocket science!
This is the global forum through which world governments discuss the issue of "space junk" - abandoned rocket stages, defunct satellites and their exploded fragments.
SpaceX from Southern California, successfully launched and recovered the first private supply rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) in May of this year.
They worked for Morton Thiokol (now ATK Thiokol), the Utah-based NASA contractor which produced the solid rocket motors that lifted space shuttles from their launch pads.
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.
Following completion of the current Ares V super-heavy-lift rocket program, the Space Launch System, I believe that the government should commercialize all future launch vehicle development and operations.
The new mega-rocket, called the Space Launch System, passed a series of reviews that laid out the technical, performance, cost and schedule requirements for the heavy-lift booster.
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Or all the other more then 20, 00 pieces of orbital debris like Spent Rocket Boosters left in space that can no longer be moved by a control center on Earth.
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