41.   Vandenberg, with its coastal location, had that role for decades, since rockets could be launched without passing over populated areas.

42.   When real stand-up targets in the playing field behind the virtual images are hit, the computer launches a rocket or destroys a bright green Martian.

43.   When rockets are launched headed due south, they cross nothing but ocean until they reach Antarctica.

44.   While the social climbers danced and flirted and the jocks went out for passes, he read Popular Science and launched rockets.

45.   With the emergence of the Alaska spaceport, Vandenberg will lose the distinction of being the only place in the United States where rockets are launched into polar orbit.

46.   Young science buffs can launch rockets, find constellations and experience an alien encounter at Astro Camp in Idyllwild.

47.   Other tanks can fire missiles through the cannon but must rely on other mechanisms to launch rockets.

48.   A Canadian observation post later confirmed the rockets were launched by the Bosnian Serb army.

49.   A Hezbollah legislator said Saturday that his group had not given up on launching rockets at northern Israel.

50.   After weeks of postponements due to mechanical problems, Japan on Saturday launched a rocket carrying two satellites into space.