A small company, working with the Pentagon and NASA, is scheduled to launch a 50-foot winged rocket from a B-52 flying over the Pacific Ocean today in a pioneering effort to provide a new way to send spacecraft into orbit.

But most importantly it was a freight and passenger transfer station in space, the place where short-range winged rockets from Earth met the space liners that plied between the planets.

The merchant rocketship Gary, built by "Reactors Ltd." and transferred to the family corporation "System Enterprises," was a winged rocket especially fitted for point-to-point operations on Venus.

Their destination was an antiquated winged rocket, the wings of which had been torched off and welded into a tent-shaped annex to give more living room.

Lying fifty metres from the Ares, and quite dwarfed by her bulk, were the two winged rockets that had come up from Mars during the night.

Orbital Sciences is scheduled to launch a 50-foot winged rocket from a B-52 flying over the Pacific Ocean today in a pioneering effort to provide a new way to send spacecraft into orbit.

The company drew up a plan for a relatively small, inexpensive satellite that could be put in place by Pegasus, a 50-foot winged rocket fired from an airplane.

A winged rocket built by a private company was launched into orbit from a B-52 aircraft over the Pacific Ocean today, marking an important step in the nation's efforts to develop a low-cost and reliable way to send small satellites into space.

The most innovative is Pegasus, a winged rocket designed to be launched from an airplane.

The winged rocket's use of lightweight graphite rocket casings and wings, as well as miniaturized electronics, allow it to lift payloads of up to 900 pounds into low orbits.