For an Aug. 5 liftoff, the launch window opens at 8:34 a.m. PDT 11:34 a.m.
The two-stage Naro rocket operated normally during and after liftoff from the country's space center, Minister of Education, Science and Technology Ahn Byong-man said.
Here, the shuttle is mounted on a mobile launchpad weeks before its liftoff.
In 1998, North Korea launched a long-range missile that flew over Japan and into the Pacific, while a second test in 2006 failed shortly after liftoff.
The above image was taken seconds after liftoff as the massive orbiter and six astronauts began a climb to a height where the atmosphere is so thin it is unbreathable.
NASA was worried the door, which is attached to the gantry structure of the launch pad, might swing wildly during liftoff and damage Endeavour as it blasted off.
We await your triumphant return! Goodbye! "a technician at mission control told the astronauts minutes before the liftoff."
Instead, he says that pterosaurs needed all four limbs for liftoff.
For, they, being not experts, are not supposed to draw too much conclusions on scientific and technical progress from the liftoff of Shen Zhou V.
The insulating foam prevents ice from forming on the tank when it is filled with 500,000 gallons (1.9 million liters) of supercold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen before liftoff.
There was an astronaut who peed in his spacesuit before liftoff? A seemingly inauspicious start to what became the first American manned spaceflight.