Pyrex, heat- resistant glass for cooking, is launched; tested in the kitchen of a Corning physicist's wife.
(Having just launched, tests and reviews are not yet available).
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.
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.
In late 2014, US-based XCOR plans to launch tests of its two-person Lynx spacecraft, which will run for up to 18 months.
The company has plans to launch tests of two different vaccines before the end of the year, ScienceNOW has learned.
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).
