Hospitals Have Gotten Too Nice
The last time I stepped on a plane for vacation, for fun, was more than three years ago. I haven’t been able to visit California, whose coast I…
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Virgin Galactic launches fifth commercial flight to sub-orbital space and back
Planetary scientist Alan Stern, who spearheaded NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, enjoyed a spaceflight of his own Thursday, soaring to the edge of space and back aboard…
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Virgin Galactic makes history with first space tourist flight
Virgin Galactic makes history with first space tourist flight – CBS News Watch CBS News A Virgin Galactic rocketplane made space tourism history Thursday when it carried its…
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Virgin Galactic launches its first commercial flight
Virgin Galactic launches its first commercial flight – CBS News Watch CBS News Virgin Galactic, the company founded by billionaire Richard Branson, launched a rocket plane carrying six…
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Virgin Galactic launches rocketplane on first commercial sub-orbital flight to space
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic launched its first commercial space flight Thursday, sending three Italian researchers, two company pilots and an astronaut trainer on a high-speed thrill ride to…
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SpaceX launches powerful Indonesian communications satellite
SpaceX launched a powerful Indonesian communications satellite Sunday, the linchpin in a $550 million project to provide high-speed internet access to schools, medical centers and thousands of public…
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Virgin Galactic Stock Jumps as First Commercial Spaceflight Announced
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Rocket Lab launches two small NASA satellites to monitor tropical storms
Rocket Lab launched two toaster-size satellites for NASA on Sunday, the first of four “cubesats” designed to provide hourly updates of typhoon and hurricane development in a bid…
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches powerful ViaSat internet relay satellite
After multiple delays for weather and technical issues, SpaceX finally launched a Falcon Heavy rocket Sunday carrying a competitor’s internet satellite, the first of three next-generation data relay…
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A spacewalk, a SpaceX launch, and a last-minute abort cap busy day in space
SpaceX fired off two SES broadband communications satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday atop a Falcon 9 rocket, and then tried to launch a ViaSat internet relay…
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3D-printed rocket blasts off, withstands rigors of launch but fails to reach orbit
A new rocket, the world’s first made up of mostly 3D-printed components and fueled by liquid natural gas, blasted off on its maiden flight Wednesday night and climbed…
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Rocket Lab launches two radar imaging satellites from Virgina’s Eastern Shore
A Rocket Lab Electron booster blasted off from Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Thursday evening, boosting a pair of commercial radar imaging satellites into orbit that are capable of…
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SpaceX follows Crew Dragon launch scrub with successful Starlink flight
While working to fix a problem that derailed an attempt to launch a four-man crew to the International Space Station, SpaceX pressed ahead with the launch of another…
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SpaceX launch doubleheader puts 51 Starlinks and Inmarsat relay station into orbit
SpaceX launched Falcon 9 rockets from both coasts Friday, firing off 51 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites from California, and then boosting a high-power Inmarsat commercial relay…
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SpaceX launches high-power Spanish communications satellite
SpaceX launched a high-power Spanish communications satellite Monday that will serve government and corporate users in the Americas, Greenland and along Atlantic Ocean air and maritime shipping corridors.…
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Virgin Orbit Shares Plummet After Rocket Launch Failure: Watch
Houston, we seem to have a problem. Getty Images Virgin Orbit’s attempt to make history as the first satellite mission to launch out of the UK failed on…
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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket suffers in-flight failure in Britain’s first orbital flight
Virgin Orbit launched nine small satellites atop a rocket dropped from a 747 jumbo jet south of Ireland on Monday, but the booster suffered a failure during the…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 puts on spectacular sunset sky show boosting 2 Intelsat satellites to orbit
Running two days late after back-to-back scrubs, SpaceX launched a pair of Intelsat communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Saturday evening in the company’s third Falcon 9 launch in…
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