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  • The cost overruns and other problems are likely to delay the rocket's launch from March 2015 to late 2016, widening the gap between the planned retirement of the space shuttle in 2010 and the first Constellation flight, while extending thousands of job losses in Brevard County.

    NASA Watch: April 2009 Archives 2009

  • Air Force officials who have safety jurisdiction over all launches from Kennedy Space Center are worried that the rocket's vibrations could knock out the self-destruct mechanism required in case the launch goes awry.

    NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives 2009

  • We have to stand up now.8.05pm: That key change on "rocket's red glare" is a tricky devil.

    GOP presidential debate in Nevada - as it happened 2011

  • And the possibility that the $360 million prototype will veer off course is a real risk, according to both the Air Force 45th Space Wing and NASA managers, because the rocket's vibrations could also wreck its steering system, known as the Thrust Vector Control, or TVC.

    NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives 2009

  • These include a three-year slip in the Falcon 9 rocket's maiden launch as well as extensive delays of test flights designed to reduce risk before manned missions commence.

    Budget, Technical Woes Hamper Space Ventures Andy Pasztor 2011

  • A group of experts identified a clogged fuel-supply line on the upper stage as the culprit behind the botched August launch, which resulted in the rocket's falling back to Earth instead of reaching orbit.

    Russia Sets Launch to Maintain Crews on Space Station Andy Pasztor 2011

  • Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison R., Texas, one of the rocket's staunchest supporters, said NASA, the White House and Congress finally ended up "on the same page."

    NASA's Aim for Rocket: Deep Space Andy Pasztor 2011

  • We sang the national anthem, and at 8:56 a.m. we saw the rocket's red glare.

    At Cape Canaveral, the Rocket's Red Glare Scott Simon 2011

  • I have heard the glistening rocket's engine blasting off its own fuel cells to the cemetery of the lost forever past.

    Safety First (Twenty Poems) Darryl Price 2011

  • * The satellite did not reach orbit due to failure of the rocket's fairing to separate.

    Glory climate satellite fails: information & reactions 2011

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