It needed much more power than the rockets used to launch the one-man Mercury and the two-man Gemini flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The Philippine Department of Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute plan to launch a free service next month.

VOA: special.2010.08.17

The weather was good. The scientists had planned that part of the rocket would fall into the ocean after the launch.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

The new launch vehicle would be used to carry the supplies and equipment needed to explore space beyond the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Borman and Lovell continued to circle the Earth, day after day, as workers hurried to meet the new launch date.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Virgin Galactic expects to spend more than four hundred million dollars for five commercial spaceships and launch vehicles.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Western nations are concerned that Iran could use the missile technology to launch a nuclear weapon, which Iran is suspected of building.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

The musical helped launch the careers of several African American performers, including singers Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

Next year, the Chinese plan to launch a small space laboratory to practice docking of spacecraft in orbit.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

On Earth Day, the artist and building designer Maya Lin will launch a Web site about the Earth's endangered plants and animals.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But he flew one hundred eighty-seven kilometers high, and four hundred eighty kilometers from the launch pad.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Helen Murray Free is known for helping to launch organizations that help increase public interest in science.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

They rested for a while. Then they began to prepare to launch the lander for the return flight to the orbiting command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

They also showed that the Apollo spacecraft could survive the launch and could re-enter Earth's atmosphere safely.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

And that is a major challenge." Larry Graham,president of the National Confectioners Association in Washington, represented industry groups at the launch of the framework.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

Soon after the launch, Cooper and Conrad noted a problem that almost ended their flight early.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

President Ahmadinejad reportedly called the satellite launch "a message of brotherhood and peace" to the world.

VOA: special.2009.02.07