(Having just launched, tests and reviews are not yet available).
Pyrex, heat- resistant glass for cooking, is launched; tested in the kitchen of a Corning physicist's wife.
Since the mid-2000s several companies have launched tests for the general public, offering consumers cheap, simple genetic screening for a wide range of health conditions.
Just last week, McDonald's Corp. launched testing for The McDonald's Mobile Ordering App, in 22 markets, free to customers who pay by credit card in advance for their fries, shakes and Big Macs.
The Pentagon has no plans to launch test rockets from the base, because it is close to populated areas.
Pentagon officials say Fort Greely would initially be used as simply a storage site and command center for launching test missiles from Kodiak.
The rocket ship will launch test runs this year and offer commercial space tours as early as 2012.
Although take-off from a runway is possible, balloons provide a safer way to launch test flights of the 12-kilogram plane.
The space agency has already built a prototype capable of launching test harpoon tips across a distance of a mile (1.6km).
Several times a year, the Air Force launches test missions of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, called Minuteman IIIs.
