• Will This Rocket Help Ignite A New Space Race, Or A New World War?

    Here's South Korea's first space rocket, the prosaically named Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, whose scheduled launch was aborted today. If it ever launches, will the KSLV-1 establish South Korea as a space power, or create new tensions with North Korea?

    Korea aborted the rocket launch seven minutes before lift-off, but officials wouldn't say why. The rocket was supposed to place a Russia satellite in orbit, and comes four months after North Korea's own rocket launch. North Korea had been harshly critical of the South Korean initiative.

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    By Charlie Jane Anders
    Aug 19, 2009 9:00 AM 2,543
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