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World’s Largest Plane Pulls Off Its Latest Flight Test
The biggest aeroplane ever built just flew over the Mojave desert for its fifth test flight, inching closer to fulfilling its role of carrying and releasing hypersonic vehicles.
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Blue Origin Employees Claim Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Is Sexist, Toxic, and Lax About Flight Safety
A scathing essay written by nearly two dozen current and former Blue Origin employees paints a grim picture of work conditions at the company and how the burgeoning space race among billionaires is compromising flight safety.
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The FAA Changed Its Definition of ‘Astronaut’ on the Same Day Jeff Bezos Went to Space
Jeff Bezos is a lot of things. A tax-dodging megalomaniac. A Dr. Evil lookalike. A weirdly horny cowboy hat enthusiast. The one thing he isn’t — at least as far as the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned — is an astronaut.
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Virgin Galactic Aborts New Mexico Launch Because of Rocket Motor Issues
Nearly two years after its last flight, Virgin Galactic — the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, another billionaire who loves space — aborted the scheduled test launch of its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into suborbital space today because of an issue with its rocket motor.