Brazil successfully launches Rocket

BBC News:

Brazil has successfully launched its first rocket into space. Sunday's launch came 14 months after an attempt to put satellites in orbit ended in a deadly explosion. That rocket blew up before take-off from the Alcantara launch site in northern Brazil, killing 21 people, including key technicians. Brazil hopes the successful launch will push forward its plans to sell 15 of its VSV-30 rockets to the European Space Agency.

Good for them! Brazil has long been a nation that seems to almost, but not quite, be able to move out of the third world. Things have been going reletively well for them recently, lets hope that this, and other successes will build together.