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Virgin Galactic’s long-delayed test flight to space is aborted midway after engine malfunctions

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Virgin Galactic has suffered another setback to its mission to send commercial passengers into space after its rocket unexpectedly turned back before reaching space during its latest test flight.  The VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo vehicle on Saturday embarked on its third test flight to suborbital space and its first ever to take place from Virgin Galactic’s … Read more

Trump ‘kissed Melania goodbye’ before aborted attempt to visit Kim Jong Un in 2017, ‘Rage’ claims

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President Donald Trump ‘kissed Melania goodbye’ before his first aborted visit to Kim Jong-un and the inter-Korean DMZ in late 2017, fearing that he may not return. The claim comes in a soon-to-be-released book ‘Rage’ by the renowned Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, who interviewed Trump 18 times ahead of its release. ‘Rage’ claims that … Read more

SpaceX Starship rocket ‘hop’ aborted after tests that resulted in a 100-foot plume of liquid oxygen

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Elon Musk’s vision of sending humans to Mars on the SpaceX Starship rocket has been delayed again. The SN5 prototype was set make a 492 foot ‘hop’ Tuesday at the firm’s Boca Chica site in Texas, but was aborted around 12:30pm ET. The Starship completed a serious of tests leading up to liftoff, but the … Read more

Boeing skipped a software test on Starliner before its aborted launch in December

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Boeing skipped a crucial software test on Starliner that could have identified an issue that caused the craft to enter the wrong orbit The integration test may have identified a software glitch before launch The bug forced Starliner to abort a mission to the ISS in December NASA approved the flight despite Boeing failing to … Read more