SEATTLE — In 1947, Robert A. Heinlein published a novel called “Rocket Ship Galileo,” about a group of whiz kids who build their own ship and fly into space. This summer, 57 years after the ...

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the first two pieces of the Galileo constellation, Europe's version of the Global Positioning System (GPS), to orbit Thursday. The Soyuz will blast off from ...