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January 31, 2023
A woman walks in front of SoftBank store in Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Jan. 20, 2020. Japanese investor SoftBank Group reported Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023 that it sank into a deep loss for the October-December quarter, slammed by the global plunge in technology shares.
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January 31, 2023
In this May 29, 2018 photo provided by Virgin Galactic, the VSS Unity craft flies during a supersonic flight test. Virgin Galactic has received nearly 8,000 online reservations of interest since its first successful test flight into space 14 months ago, the company said Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, as it nears commercial operation and prepares to reopen ticket sales.
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Virgin Galactic Reports Big Interest in Space Flights
The company has received nearly 8,000 online reservations.
February 26, 2020
This photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows the Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity flying over Spaceport America in Truth or Consequences, NM on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020.
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Virgin Spaceship Arrives at New Home
The move marks a significant milestone toward commercial flights, which the company anticipates this year.
February 14, 2020
In this image from video, Delta Air Lines Flight 89 to Shanghai, China dumps fuel over Los Angeles before returning to Los Angeles International Airport for an emergency landing Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Fire officials say fuel apparently dumped by the aircraft returning to LAX fell onto an elementary school playground. A fire department tweet says firefighters are assessing 'multiple patients' at the school in the suburban city of Cudahy, Calif. The flight tracking website FlightAware shows that Delta Air Lines Flight 89 to Shanghai, China, departed LAX, circled back over Southern California and returned to the airport.
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Experts Puzzled After Airliner Dumps Fuel on Kids
Retired pilot calls the move 'pretty outrageous.'
January 16, 2020
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Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Reaches Milestone
Two spaceships are now structurally complete.
January 8, 2020
In this Dec. 13, 2018 file photo, Virgin Galactic aircraftVSS Unity reaches space for the first time during its fourth powered flight from Mojave Air and Space Port, Calif. Boeing plans to invest $20 million in Virgin Galactic as the space tourism company nears its goal of launching passengers on suborbital flights. The companies announced the investment Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, saying they will work together on broadening commercial access to space and transforming global travel technologies. Virgin Galactic has conducted successful test flights of its winged rocket ship at Mojave, California, and is preparing to begin operations at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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Boeing Invests in Virgin Galactic
The companies say they will work together on broadening commercial access to space and transforming global travel technologies.
October 8, 2019
Stratolaunch, a giant six-engine aircraft with the world’s longest wingspan , makes its historic first flight from the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif., Saturday, April 13, 2019. Founded by the late billionaire Paul G. Allen, Stratolaunch is vying to be a contender in the market for air-launching small satellites.
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Stratolaunch Jet Completes Test
The aircraft features the world's longest wingspan.
April 15, 2019
Richard Branson center celebrates with pilots Rick “CJ” Sturckow, left, and Mark “Forger” Stucky, right, after Virgin Galactic’s tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California’s Mojave Desert on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. The rocket ship reached an altitude of 51 miles (82 kilometers) before beginning its gliding descent, said mission official Enrico Palermo. The craft landed on a runway minutes later.
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Virgin Galactic Makes it to Space
The supersonic flight takes Virgin Galactic closer to turning the long-delayed dream of commercial space tourism into reality.
December 14, 2018
This May 29, 2018 photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows the VSS Unity craft during a supersonic flight test. The spaceship isn’t launched from the ground but is carried beneath a special aircraft to an altitude around 50,000 feet (15,240 meters). There, it’s released before igniting its rocket engine and climbing.
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Virgin Galactic Prepares for Space Flight
Virgin Galactic officials emphasized that it would be a test flight and there could be an array of reasons why it could end short of its goal or be aborted altogether.
December 13, 2018
Two streaks in this long exposure photo show a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off, left, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, as seen from Pismo Beach, Calif. Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, and then its first stage returning, right, to Earth at a nearby landing pad. The primary purpose of the mission was to place the SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, but SpaceX also wanted to expand its recovery of first stages to its launch site at the Air Force base, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.
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SpaceX Satellite Launch Lights Up Sky
People as far away as San Francisco, Sacramento, Phoenix and Reno, Nevada, posted photos of the Falcon 9 rocket's launch.
October 9, 2018
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
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SpaceX to Build New Rocket in LA
The facility would have potential to employ 700 people.
April 17, 2018
This Nov. 11, 2017 photo provided by Sierra Nevada Corporation shows the Dream Chaser spacecraft landing after a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The Sierra Nevada Corp. says its Dream Chaser had a successful free-flight drop test in the Mojave Desert on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017.
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Dream Chaser Makes Glide Test Flight
We could be making unmanned cargo flights to the ISS as soon as 2020.
November 14, 2017
In this Sunday, June 25, 2017, photo released by SpaceX, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen before lift off Sunday, carrying 10 more satellites for Iridium Communications, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. SpaceX has succeeded in landing a Falcon 9 first-stage booster on a vessel in the Pacific after a launch from California. The rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 1:25 p.m. Sunday. It was carrying 10 satellites for Iridium Communications. The first-stage booster landed about 7 minutes later. The Falcon's second stage is continuing to carry the satellites toward orbit.
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SpaceX Launches 10 Satellites
The first stage was recovered after landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
June 26, 2017
In this Oct. 19, 2016, file photo, workers lower the tail shield section of a tunnel boring machine into a 45 foot deep pit, during a ceremonial naming and lowering for the Regional Connector Transit Project downtown Los Angeles. Just weeks after suddenly tweeting 'Traffic is driving me nuts' and 'am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging,' Elon Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla founder says it's on the verge of happening. 'Exciting progress on the tunnel front,' he tweeted Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. 'Plan to start digging in a month or so.'
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Musk's Mysterious Tunnel Project
Traffic is driving him nuts, so Musk is going to build a network of subterranean tunnels.
January 26, 2017
Space-X's Falcon 9 rocket with 10 satellites launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. The two-stage rocket lifted off to place 10 satellites into orbit for Iridium Communications Inc. About nine minutes later, the first stage returned to Earth and landed successfully on a barge in the Pacific Ocean south of Vandenberg.
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SpaceX Launches Rocket
The return to flight is an important step for SpaceX.
January 16, 2017