European Space Agency Is Building A Hypersonic Spaceplane
There have been several attempts over the decades to build a so-called Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) vehicle, but thus far, none have succeeded.
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SpaceX Whines To The Feds About Another Company Flooding Orbit With Satellites
In fairness, SpaceX may have a point. AST SpaceMobile's proposed satellites are the size of a tennis court and would be visible to the naked eye from the ground
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Too Much Moose Meat Blamed For Fatal 2023 Plane Crash That Killed Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola's Husband
The National Transportation Safety Board concluded its investigation into the crash and believes it knows why the plane crashed — it was overloaded with moose meat.
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How Google Street View Captures The World
Google Street View's coverage boasts 12 million miles across 110 countries, and the company is taking new pictures of those miles all the time.
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Delta Pilot Fails Breathalyzer Test Before Transatlantic Flight And Gets Arrested
Delta Air Lines had to quickly cancel a long-haul flight on Tuesday despite the crew arriving on time and there being no issues with the planes.
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Hit-And-Run Boater Who Crashed Into Midway Aircraft Carrier Arrested For Boating Under The Influence
The Midway's dignified retirement was recently interrupted when a 65-foot motor boat banged into the warship.
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Delta Pilot Abruptly Avoids B-52 During Approach, Apologizes To Passengers For 'Aggressive Maneuver'
While there are lessons to be learned from this incident that shouldn't have happened, it had the best possible outcome, with everyone walking away unharmed.
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Pilots In Fiery South Korean Plane Crash Shut Off Wrong Engine After Bird Strike
The bird strike alone likely won't be officially declared the crash's cause, but it sparked the chain of events that led to the catastrophic impact.
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Hanoi To Ban Combustion Motorcycles And Scooters From City Center In Less Than A Year
Motorcycles and scooters with internal combustion engines will be banned from the inner city in less than a year, with further and wider bans to follow.
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Who Builds Boeing's Jet Engines, And Are They The Same As Airbus Uses?
Of the four major manufacturers of aircraft engines, which build jet engines for Boeing? Which planes' engines do they build? And does Airbus use them, too?
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NASA Employees Know They Can Only Save Themselves From A Trump-Forced Turndown
287 current or former NASA employees signed a letter detailing the destructive decisions that threaten to endanger lives and harm the public good.
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Just How Dangerous Is New York City's Subway, Really?
So while crimes do occur on the subway, and the pandemic led to significant increases, it's disingenuous to claim the subway is more dangerous than ever.
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Ships Could Start Going Nuclear Again
As countries around the world try to tamp down emissions (well, some of them, anyway), a major target for improvement is the shipping industry.
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What Makes Boeing's Doomsday Plane Different From Air Force One?
Everybody knows about Air Force One, the president's mode of transportation for long distances. However, the Pentagon has its own plane, as well.
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Subaru Has An Airplane And Helicopter Business You Might Not Know About
You may have seen a Subaru in the air during a particularly spirited rally event, but did you know the company builds actual aircraft?
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Hyundai Turned An Ioniq 9 Into A Mobile Seed Bomb Drone Station
The Seed Ball Drone Station will drive into forests that have just suffered a wildfire and then deploy drones to reseed hard to access areas.
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You Might Love Your Vintage RV, But Some Parks Don't
It's always less expensive to buy an older RV or to hold onto your RV for as long as you can, but that might also prove to be a headache at some campgrounds.
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Smithsonian Fights Back Against $85 Million Space Shuttle Kipnapping To Texas
When President Trump signed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law, he also set aside $85 million for a Congress-authorized heist of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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LiveWire, Zero Join The Grom Squad With Smaller, More Affordable Electric Motorcycles
LiveWire took the opportunity at Harley-Davidson Homecoming 2025 to display a pair of concept bikes unlike anything we've seen from the electric brand before.
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In Its First Year, Rubin Observatory Will Gather More Space Data Than All Other Telescopes In History Combined
In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or 10% of the entire astronomical community's annual job.
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Delta Plans To Put AI In Charge Of Ticket Pricing, Which Should Probably Be Illegal
Consumer Watchdog found when companies use surveillance pricing, they tend to favor the wealthy and instead offer higher prices to customers with lower incomes.
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White House Needs $19 Billion More To Fix Air Traffic Control
It's fair to say that the Federal Aviation Administration should spare no expense when it comes to bringing air traffic control into the 21st century.
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Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Has Good Ideas To Eliminate TSA Security Theater
Kristi Noem, our mouth-frothing Secretary of Homeland Security, proposed that TSA allow larger liquid containers on planes, and I'm reluctantly forced to agree.
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China's New Maglev Trains Are Faster Than Planes
If this new maglev tech that China is developing pans out, it ought to be moving at anywhere from two to three times the fastest trains in the world today.
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New Bill Would Force Army Helicopters To Keep Flight Tracking On
Senator Ted Cruz is introducing a new bill that would "close the regulatory loophole" that allows military aircraft to turn off key flight tracking technology.
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America's Deadliest Train Is Deadlier Than We Thought
A year-long investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN found that Brightline trains have killed 182 people since testing began in 2017.
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Honda Helping Team USA Olympic Bobsled/Skeleton Team With Wind Tunnel Testing And Development
Aerodynamics play an important role in shaving valuable fractions of a second off bobsled and skeleton run times, and Honda wants to help Team USA win.
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