BEIJING. China is moving its new largest carrier rocket, which will be used for lunar and Mars probes, to its launch base in southern Hainan from northern China'sTianjin Port. Long March-5 rocket, carried by two special rocket- carrying ships Yuanwang-21 and Yuanwang-22, will arrive at Qinglan Port in Wenchang, Hainan Province early next month ... Its engines can produce a thrust of more than 1,000 tonnes when taking off ... RELATED....
Turkish shelling and air strikes killed at least 40 Syrians on Sunday, a monitor said, in the first significant civilian casualties in Turkey’s intensifying campaign in northern Syria. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said the army had killed 25 Kurdish “terrorists” in air strikes as part of its unprecedented operation inside Syria ... Keywords....
Patrick Reed picked up two victories in one day. He won The Barclays to assure himself a clear shot at the $10 million bonus in the FedEx Cup, and he easily secured a spot on his second straight U.S.RyderCup team ... ....
Brooklyn, Mich. • With time running out on his bid to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Greg Biffle is back at the site of his most recent victory. It was over three years ago. In June of 2013, Biffle won at MichiganInternationalSpeedway — his fourth victory at the track and second in a row. In 116 Cup races since, he’s come up empty ... “Th... ....
(AP) — Kyle Larson raced to his first Sprint Cup victory Sunday, taking the lead on a restart with nine laps remaining and holding off ChaseElliott at Michigan......
BROOKLYN, Mich. >> With time running out on his bid to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Greg Biffle is back at the site of his most recent victory. It was over three years ago. In June 2013, Biffle won at MichiganInternationalSpeedway -- his fourth victory at the track and second in a row ... ....
There is no better way to follow all the action in today's NASCAR Sprint CupSeries race at MichiganInternationalSpeedway than via RaceTrax, which features live scoring updates and up-to-the-second tweets so you can keep track of all your favorite drivers ... ....
As he continues to try to maintain his spot in the top 30 in the NASCAR Sprint CupSeries in points, Chris Buescher encounters problems almost as soon as Sunday's race at MichiganInternationalSpeedway gets underway ... ....