... Remember, the first satellite was launched into space less than 50 years ago, and it took a few decades before that sort of technology could be turned into hard economic results (look at the just the cell phone industry, for example). ...
... In October of 1989, NASA launched the Galileo spacecraft toward the planet Jupiter. ... and the dangers or lack thereof posed by launching radioactive materials into space ...
... Here is the old, incorrect page . In October of 1989, NASA launched the Galileo spacecraft toward the planet Jupiter. ... a discussion over whether RTGs are safe, and the dangers or lack thereof posed by launching radioactive materials into space ...
... Just 100 hours after its launch on January 6, 1998, the small piece of metal called Lunar Prospector began silently orbiting the Moon (small indeed: it's drum shaped, about 1.3 meters across). ...
... in less than two weeks, Burt Rutan's Scaled Composite rocket, SpaceShipOne , won the coveted X-Prize , a ten million dollar prize to the first private group that could launch a manned spaceship to an altitude of at least 100 kilometers twice in two weeks ...