In the United States, on September 2, 2001, Cowboy Bebop became the first anime title to be shown as part of the U. S. Adult Swim Launch .< ref >

This is part of the Force Application and Launch from Continental United States ( FALCON ) effort.

Solar-thermal monoprop thrusters are also integral to the design of a next-generation cryogenic upper stage rocket proposed by U. S. company United Launch Alliance ( ULA ).

The United States Navy is also using linear induction motors in the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System that will replace traditional steam catapults on future aircraft carriers.

On October 30, 1984, United States President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Commercial Space Launch Act.

On November 5, 1990, United States President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Launch Services Purchase Act.

In 1996 the United States government selected Lockheed Martin and Boeing to each develop Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles ( EELV ) to compete for launch contracts and provide assured access to space.

In 2005, continued weak commercial demand for EELV launches drove Lockheed Martin and Boeing to propose a joint venture called the United Launch Alliance to monopolize the United States government launch market.

Henry R. Sutphen of Electric Launch Company ( Elco ) and his designers ( Irwin Chase, Bill Fleming, and Glenville Tremaine ) visited the United Kingdom to see British motor torpedo boat designs.

In October 2009, the Air Force and United Launch Alliance ( ULA ) performed an experimental on-orbit demonstration on a modified Centaur upper stage on the DMSP-18 launch to improve " understanding of propellant settling and slosh, pressure control, RL10 chilldown and RL10 two-phase shutdown operations.

* United Launch Alliance ( ULA )-Delta IV And Atlas V

The city now finds its economy heavily based on manufacturing industries, cargo transit, and hi-tech industries such as General Electric, and the United Launch Alliance.

Approval of the United Launch Alliance combined Lockheed-Martin and Boeing's rocket manufacturing contracts to a central location at the plant in Decatur.

* United Launch Alliance

In the 2008-2009 year, Mitchell became the first community college in the United States to be accepted into NASA's University Student Launch Initiative competition, and the Mitchell rocket team placed 8th out of 28 teams.

* Launch in the United Kingdom of Penguin Classics under the editorship of E. V. Rieu, whose translation of the Odyssey is the first published in the series.

Among these companies is United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed joint venture that builds rockets in Shelby's home state.

Solar-thermal monoprop hydrogen thrusters are also integral to the design of the next-generation cryogenic upper stage rocket proposed by U. S. company United Launch Alliance ( ULA ).

Rosie Carver, a technical writer for United Launch Alliance, has created at least 15, 000 procedures for more than 300 missions since the Solar Maximum Mission, which launched Feb. 14, 1980.

* United Launch Alliance, a space launch service provider

On October 28, 2011, three PPODs containing six cubesats were placed into orbit along with the NPOESS Preparatory Project satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

On the East coast of the United States, Space Launch Complex 37 ( SLC-37 ) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Sea Launch was established in 1995 as a consortium of four companies from Norway, Russia, Ukraine and the United States, managed by Boeing with participation from the other shareholders.

United Launch Alliance plans to use the DMSP-18 mission to flight-test centrifugal propellant settling as a cryogenic fuel management technique that might be used in future propellant depots.

* 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

* 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.

* 1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket

* 1965 – Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew.

* 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

* 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.

* 1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.

* 2007 – Chang ' e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

* 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

* Iran to Launch first spy satellite

The first rocket launch from the Cape was Bumper 8 from Launch Complex 3 on July 24, 1950.

In 1969, Kalam was transferred to the Indian Space Research Organization ( ISRO ) where he was the project director of India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle ( SLV-III ) which successfully deployed the Rohini satellite in near earth orbit in July 1980.

Following the first published use of FTA in the 1962 Minuteman I Launch Control Safety Study, Boeing and AVCO expanded use of FTA to the entire Minuteman II system in 1963-1964.

The Official Launch of Camogie took place with the first public match between Craobh an Chéitinnigh ( Keatings branch of the Gaelic League ) and Cúchulainns on July 17 at a Feis in Navan.

The first NASA launch facility there ( Launch Complex 39 ) was designed and operated by MSFC, then in on July 1, 1962, the overall site achieving equal status with other NASA centers and was named the Launch Operations Center, later renamed the Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ).

Just four days after the missile's arrival, Launch Facility Alpha-09 gained the title of the first Minuteman missile site.

In November 1991, the 12th Missile Squadron's Launch Facility J-03 became the first to have its missile removed in compliance with the order.

The Vanguard Satellite Launch Vehicle ( the term was invented for the operation SLV models, as opposed to the Test Vehicle TV versions ) of the first generation.

The First Team became the first division to field the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the Humvee, the Multiple Launch Rocket System and Mobile Subscriber Equipment ( MSE ) tactical communications.

In October 2003 the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center achieved the first Chinese human spaceflight.

Launch of the first Skynet satellite, Skynet 1A, by Delta rocket in 1969 from Cape Canaveral