OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Hundreds of earthlings turned their faces to the sky Monday to see an airplane built to launch a ship into space, watching the gleaming white craft soar overhead.
The twin-fuselage craft named WhiteKnightTwo, looking like two planes connected at the wing tips, circled the runway several times before touching down at [...]
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Final frontier: Crowd sees spaceship launcher fly
July 28th, 2009 |
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Brian Ross: We Regulate Money, Drugs, Commerce, but not Health. Why?
July 27th, 2009 |
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Why can’t we use the power of the government to really regulate the insurance companies?
July 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport
July 24th, 2009 |
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1950: Cape Canaveral, Florida, launches its first rocket.
Cape Canaveral, a name that would become synonymous with the U.S. space program by the late ’50s, was just an obscure spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean along Florida’s eastern shore when, in 1948, an Air Force committee recommended its procurement for a missile testing range.
Actually, [...]