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Brazil, Argentina Launch Rocket on Science Mission
By The Associated Press
posted: 17 December 2007
10:40 a.m. ET
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) --
Brazil and Argentina successfully launched a rocket into space on Sunday in the
first joint space mission by the two South American nations.
The VS30 rocket, which
carried experiments from both countries, blasted off from Brazil's Barreira do
Inferno launch center in northern Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil's Space
Agency said in a statement.
The rocket reached an
altitude of 75 miles and its journey -- which lasted 9 minutes, 25 seconds --
was considered "perfect," the agency said.
Liftoff was delayed several
times since Wednesday by bad weather.
The
mission was the fruit of a 1998 accord between space agencies in Brazil, which
has launched rockets into space before, and Argentina, which has relied on
other nations to send up satellites.
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