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Bizarre Flock of Mystery Drones Continue Troubling Great Plains, Baffling...

Though sightings appear to have cooled off somewhat, the mystery remains...

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SpaceX Launches 100th Successful Flight in a Row Amid Growing Industry Backlash

It's SpaceX's 100th successful flight in a row since 2015.

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Elon Musk Blames FAA After SpaceX Scrubs Falcon 9 Mission at Last Second

"The current regulatory system is broken," he tweeted.

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Jeff Bezos Is Not an Astronaut (But Branson Still Is) Under New FAA Rule

The FAA announced the rule change on the day Jeff Bezos flew to space.

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SpaceX Inspiration4 Completes First Day in Space: Take a Look Inside the...

The crew has seen the sun rise and set 15 times.

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The FAA Is Fine With You Using Most Electronics During Takeoffs and Landings

Our long national nightmare of having to turn off our Kindles while taxiing is now over. The Federal Aviation Administration announced today that the use of personal electronic devices can be utilized...

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Amazon Is Asking the FAA to Bend the Law for Their Drone Program

When Jeff Bezos first announced his evil plan to start a drone delivery program for all the precious goods you order from Amazon, everyone was pretty sure it was either a publicity stunt, an April...

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Congressman Hires Drone to Film Wedding Despite FAA Ban

In what we assume was an attempt to wow his wedding-obsessed Pinterest followers, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) paid to have his nuptials recorded by a camera mounted on a drone, CBS reports. The...

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The FAA Says Drone Laws Will Be Ready by the End of the Year

Back in 2012, when it was becoming clear that the sky would someday be filled with little quadcopters delivering our packages and peaking in our windows, Congress told the Federal Aviation...

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SpaceX’s First Starship Orbital Flight Won’t Happen in 2021, FAA Says

Since its successful high-altitude test flight in May with a prototype called SN15, SpaceX has been preparing for Starship’s first orbital test, which would require a giant booster called Super Heavy...

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Amazon Is Prodding the FAA to Let Flyers Use Wi-Fi During Takeoff and Landing

As the Federal Aviation Authority continues to reevaluate its archaic in-flight electronic rules, it might add another distraction to its list: Wi-Fi. The panel decided that Wi-Fi can be utilized...

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FAA to Decide ‘Very Quickly’ If Passengers Can Use Electronics During Takeoff...

Remember when we all got excited that the FAA was going to soon ease its draconian regulations on the use of in-flight electronics…and then nothing happened? Well, now that the government shutdown is...

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SpaceX Inspiration4 Completes First Day in Space: Take a Look Inside the...

SpaceX on Wednesday evening successfully launched a crew of four amateur astronauts into space in a fully automatic Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission, called Inspiration4, is the first full-civilian...

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SpaceX’s First Starship Orbital Flight Won’t Happen in 2021, FAA Says

Since its successful high-altitude test flight in May with a prototype called SN15, SpaceX has been preparing for Starship’s first orbital test, which would require a giant booster called Super Heavy...

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NASA Quietly Removes the Calendar Placeholder For SpaceX’s Starship Launch

A time slot for SpaceX’s Starship orbital test on NASA’s calendar has been removed, adding new uncertainties around the highly anticipated flight of the world’s largest privately developed rocket....

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SpaceX May Not Launch the Second Starship Rocket as Fast as Elon Musk Hopes

As the Federal Aviation Administration and environmental regulators probe into the damages caused by last week’s Starship orbital launch attempt and the subsequent mid-air explosion, SpaceX may not be...

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Elon Musk Aims to Launch SpaceX Starship Again as Early as December: Images

On Nov. 18, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the long-awaited second orbital test of Starship, the company’s Mars-colonizing rocket, from its Starbase development site in Boca Chica, Texas. Like its first...

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin To Resume Launching Space Tourism Rocket After...

After being grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration for more than 15 months, Blue Origin’s space tourism rocket, New Shepard, is cleared to fly again. The Jeff Bezos-owned space company...

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A Former SpaceX Engineer Is Building an Airplane Anyone Can Fly in One Hour

In 2020, Nikita Ermoshkin, then an engineer at SpaceX, decided to get a private pilot license so that he could take day trips from his home in Los Angeles to San Francisco to visit friends and his...

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