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That means the rocket plane will fly to space just one more time, taking four customers into suborbital space to experience a few minutes of microgravity before coming back to land on a runway.—Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2024 The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six months, giving a few Virgin Galactic customers a taste of spaceflight after waiting more than a decade.—Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2024 July 12, 2024 at 6:55 p.m. EDT Listen 7 min
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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.—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 See all Example Sentences for rocket plane
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