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Joe Engle, the last surviving member of the test pilots who skimmed the edge of space on the X-15 rocket plane in the 1960s and who later orbited the Earth on space-shuttle missions, died July 10 at his home in Houston.
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Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company that kicked off the SPAC boom, flew its rocket plane to the limit of the atmosphere and back this morning (May 25) for the first time in nearly two years.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 25 May 2023
The flight, called Galactic 06 by Virgin Galactic, carried four customers for the first time, along with its two pilots, on a suborbital hop over New Mexico aboard the VSS Unity rocket plane.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
Zombie stars and the corporatization of the galaxy Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic will possibly join on a suborbital flight aboard the VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo rocket plane more than two weeks before Bezos' flight, Parabolic's Douglas Messier reports.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 9 June 2021
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Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company that kicked off the SPAC boom, flew its rocket plane to the limit of the atmosphere and back this morning (May 25) for the first time in nearly two years.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 25 May 2023
The flight, called Galactic 06 by Virgin Galactic, carried four customers for the first time, along with its two pilots, on a suborbital hop over New Mexico aboard the VSS Unity rocket plane.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
Zombie stars and the corporatization of the galaxy Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic will possibly join on a suborbital flight aboard the VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo rocket plane more than two weeks before Bezos' flight, Parabolic's Douglas Messier reports.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 9 June 2021
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“Rocket plane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rocket%20plane. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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