Competitors have one aim, which is to travel as far as possible from the launch site.
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For Mrs Lea, the tension began as soon as she made it to the launch site.
That has meant extra safety reviews and extra safety precautions around the Florida launch site.
Even getting anywhere near the remote launch site is normally tricky for foreigners.
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At 6:51am ET this morning, the Soyuz TMA-06M launched from the Russian launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Competitors for the Gordon Bennett Cup have a simple aim - to travel as far as possible from the launch site.
South Korean defence officials say the main body of the rocket has now been moved to the launch site in preparation.
It also is timed to woo privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, to build its third launch site in Florida.
The night before he left for the launch site in Kazakhstan, he took a break from packing to chat on the phone.
The Bureau of Land Management also gets involved, although there's nary a stick of firewood within 20 miles of the launch site.
Last year Mr Hempleman-Adams landed in Worgl, Austria, finishing in fourth place after having travelled 580.9km from the launch site at Gap-Tallard in France.
Russia will need a new rocket to get to Mars, though, and a new launch site to operate manned flights as early as in 2018.
Musk also confirmed that, while he's in Texas, he's meeting with state lawmakers about the possibility of building a commercial launch site in the state.
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Musk said Texas is the leading candidate for the launch site and that, if things go smoothly, construction could begin as early as next year.
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The procedure involves injecting a clear gel into the vas deferens, the vessel through which sperm is transported to its launch site before leaving the body.
It is preparing to activate a second launch site at Vandenberg before the end of the year and is looking to build a third launch pad in a commercial zone.
On a sunny spring morning students and teachers from all over south Texas made their way to the volunteer fire station that is all of Willow City, Texas where, armed with huge homemade rockets they were given final directions to a secluded launch site in an area more known for rattlesnakes than rockets.
But Moses had already signed away 80% of the Web site to two strategic partners--John Malone's Liberty Media, which helped launch the site in 1996, and FHC Health Systems, a behavioral health services provider.
On Tuesday, MySpace Music said it will launch a site this month that will help music companies manage their catalogs online.
In addition, consumers can browse any website from their mobile device and, with a single tap on their mobile screen, redirect and launch that site on their Samsung Smart TV.
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Ohanian, who also helped launch travel site Hipmunk and runs Breadpig, a site that gives all proceeds to social causes, said that like some of his other successes, his role was a matter of good timing.
The first and deputy first ministers have been defending the redevelopment of the former Maze prison site at the launch of a plan for the huge site.
On the eve of the live launch, the site has yet to sign up any advertisers.
AtomFilms, like music site Launch Media, recently added NBC President Warren Littlefield to its board of directors.
Three days before launch, the site already had profiles of close to 1, 000 journalists, some more detailed than others.
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Yet, however cautious the site launch, the Internet will never create the same illusion of prestige as a physical store or a live catwalk.
Keep in mind that anytime the shuttle is about to launch, the site's traffic picks up exponentially, and it can be hard to make the connection.
Ceglia contends that most of what Zuckerberg told him after the launch of the site were lies. (Facebook, as we all now know, went gangbusters right from the beginning).
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The launch of the site will be tied to the release of the band's latest collection, simply called "1, " which features all 27 of the Fab Four's number one hits.
But officials said Wednesday's launch from the site 480km (298 miles) south of Seoul had gone as planned and that the rocket had reached its target altitude and deployed its satellite.
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