The FAA granted aerospace outfit SpaceX the first-ever commercial licence to reenter spacecrafts to earth from orbit. What it really means, however, is that SpaceX can finally start testing the reentry capabilities of the the Falcon 9 craft.
Ready for mass hysteria? Apparently the FAA has acknowledged that aeroplane cargo holds can get hot enough to cause lithium batteries to ignite. And there’s more! There was a large quantity of such batteries on a plane that crashed recently: