This time, though, things went smoothly, leaving the firm well placed to begin fulfilling its own $1.9 billion cargo-resupply contract.Not to be outdone, on the same day SpaceX performed the first launch of a new, bigger variant of the firm's Falcon 9 rocket.
Ministers insist they do not have a Big Brother variant up their sleeves.
My favorite "Big Easy" variant is the 1999 "New Orleans," whose gleaming white fiberglass is covered with exuberant explosions of color and confetti-like marks that are fused with the surface, since they were painted on the interior of the mold in which the chair was cast.
Increasing density, complexity and compactness in cities will be the big-scale variant of renovating houses.
As usual, the iPhone 5 will be available in both black and white, and it will be the same price as the iPhone it replaces: $199 for a 16GB model, $299 for a 32GB model, and $399 for the big 64GB variant.
The curvaceous lines of the Camaro have aged better than those of the boxy Mustang, and prices, especially for the big-engine variants, have more than doubled in the last three years.
Variants with the DAF less than 1% have the biggest functional changes, whereas variants with DAF larger than 99% have the smallest functional consequences.
In the present study an enhanced variant of the big bang-big crunch (BB-BC) technique, namely exponential BB-BC algorithm (EBB-BC) is developed for code based design optimization of steel frame structures.
In contrast to the yellow wheat semolina commonly found in Morocco and France, the barley variant has bigger and rougher granules, a darker color and earthier flavor.
This rocket will be substantially bigger than the simple variant due to fly next month, and should be capable of putting more than 53 tonnes (117,000lb) of payload in a low-Earth orbit - more than twice that of the space shuttle.
All sequence variants were confirmed by using the PCR products of each sequence variant and Big Dye dideoxy-terminator chemistry (Perkin-Elmer) on an ABI 377 DNA sequencer (Applied Biosystems).
