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NEWS ABOUT: rockets

rockets stories: 10 news summaries

(Newser) - With all the hoopla of the Apollo anniversary safely behind us, a White House panel is ready to deliver a sobering assessment of the nation's current moon plans: They're too expensive. The panel, set up by President Obama to review NASA's human space flight program, says the agency's budget is... More »

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NASA • space exploration • astronauts • moon • rockets • outer space

NASA Space Flight Review Worries Workers

Thousands of jobs at stake when shuttle retires next year

May 7, 09 10:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A NASA review of manned space-flight plans has Kennedy Space Center workers and contractors fearing for their jobs, the Orlando Sentinel reports. A panel will investigate whether rockets set to carry humans into space after the shuttle fleet is retired next year are really NASA’s best bets. Some worry... More »

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NASA • study • space • space shuttle • Kennedy Space Center • space flight • rockets • space program • Norman Augustine

China Firm Sold Illegal Nuke Materials to Iran: Prosecutors

Company said to have sent tons of supplies, breaching UN rules

Apr 7, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York officials today charged a Chinese businessman with illegally selling tons of materials to Iran that could be used to make rockets and nuclear weapons, the New York Times reports. Sales in 2006-08 of tungsten and other metals, often through shell firms, break UN rules, prosecutors say. Li Fang... More »

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China • Iran • United Nations • nuclear weapons • nuclear • sales • indictment • rockets

Long-Range Rocket
Strikes Israel

Israel vows 'great force' in response

Feb 3, 09 4:36 AM CST
(Newser) - A long-range rocket fired today from Gaza struck the Israeli city of Ashkelon in the first such attack since the ceasefire began last month, reports CNN. No injuries were reported, but Israel vowed to respond with "great force." Resumed rocket fire from Gaza presents a particular problem for... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • ceasefire • rockets

(Newser) - The massive tunnels supplying food, medicine, and rockets from Egypt into Gaza are the bane of Israel's military, and a lifeline for Palestinians and the economy of Egypt’s destitute Sinai, the Los Angeles Times reports. Smuggling has been immune to military action, to the consternation of Israeli leaders.... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • smuggler • tunnels • Gaza Egypt border • rockets

ANALYSIS

Gaza Strikes Push Clinton, Obama to Mend Fences

World waiting to see how former rivals react to latest crisis

Dec 28, 08 2:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton criticized Barack Obama’s world affairs know-how in the primaries, but now the two are poised to join forces on their first foreign policy test, Tony Allen-Mills writes in the Times of London. Israel’s air offensive in Gaza undid months of negotiations to kick-start a peace process,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • rockets

 New Strikes Push 
 Gaza Toll to 275 

UN statement calls for 'immediate end' to violence

Dec 28, 08 4:51 AM CST
(Newser) - A new wave of Israeli missile strikes on the Gaza Strip today has hiked the death toll from the latest Israeli offensive against Hamas militants to 275, with closer to 800 wounded, reports CNN. UN Security Council members expressed "serious concern" and called for "an immediate halt to... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Palestinians • Gaza Strip border • missile strike • rockets

Rockets Hit Israel, Olmert Ends Ceasefire

Islamic Jihad militants call Gaza Strip attack revenge for raid

Jun 24, 08 9:48 AM CDT
(AP) - Police say three Palestinian rockets have hit southern Israel and Ehud Olmert's office says the ceasefire that took effect last week has been broken. Islamic Jihad militants in the Gaza Strip say they carried out the attack to avenge an Israeli military raid that killed one of their fighters in... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • West Bank • truce • rockets

Pentagon Inventing Group Hits 50, Looks to Next Strides

Freewheeling DARPA helped create the Internet

Apr 8, 08 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A small Defense Department agency credited with inventing the Internet and rockets that sent men to the moon is turning 50, the Washington Post reports, and is fine-tuning its next innovations. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's work spans biology, satellites and aircraft; it has no permanent labs and its... More »

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Department of Defense • inventions • moon • Sputnik • DARPA • rockets

Europe to Launch Space Truck

Automated vehicle can haul tons of supplies to space station

Mar 8, 08 3:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Europe is about to launch its most sophisticated spacecraft ever, the BBC reports. The “Jules Verne,” set to take off tomorrow, will deliver supplies to the International Space Station while nudging the station higher into its orbit to prevent it from falling to Earth. The freighter is fully... More »

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NASA • Europe • European Space Agency • space • astronauts • space shuttle • International Space Station • ATV • rockets

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