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Trump finalizes cabinet nominations that need Senate confirmation. Here is the list:
Read full article: Trump finalizes cabinet nominations that need Senate confirmation. Here is the list:Two of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations to lead the 15 executive departments are from Florida, Marco Rubio and Pam Bondi. These and about a dozen others require Senate confirmation.
WATCH: SpaceX’s mega rocket makes its fourth test flight from Texas
Read full article: WATCH: SpaceX’s mega rocket makes its fourth test flight from TexasSpaceX’s mega Starship rocket blasted off from Texas on Thursday, the fourth test flight for the spaceship that NASA and Elon Musk are counting on to get humanity to the moon and Mars.
Texas approves land-swapping deal with SpaceX as company hopes to expand rocket-launch operations
Read full article: Texas approves land-swapping deal with SpaceX as company hopes to expand rocket-launch operationsSpaceX is set to acquire public land from Texas after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved a land-swapping deal that would cede 43 acres to entrepreneur Elon Musk's company in exchange for 477 acres that are yet to be bought.
SpaceX will try again to launch its mega rocket into orbit after first attempt ended in an explosion
Read full article: SpaceX will try again to launch its mega rocket into orbit after first attempt ended in an explosionSpaceX is aiming for another test flight of its mega rocket on Friday after getting the final OK from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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SpaceX Starship lands upright, then explodes in latest test
Read full article: SpaceX Starship lands upright, then explodes in latest testIn this image from video made available by SpaceX, one of the company's Starship prototypes fires its thrusters as it lands during a test in Boca Chica, Texas, on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Two previous test flights crash-landed in fireballs. The shiny bullet-shaped rocketship remained intact this time at touchdown, prompting SpaceX commentator John Insprucker to declare, “third time’s a charm as the saying goes” before SpaceX ended its webcast of the test. One day, the true measure of success will be that Starship flights are commonplace.”Musk plans to use Starships to send people to the moon and Mars. Each of these last three test flights lasted 6 1/2 minutes.
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SpaceX launches Starship on highest test flight, crash-lands
Read full article: SpaceX launches Starship on highest test flight, crash-landsIn this screen grab from video posted by SpaceX, the company's Starship launches for a test flight, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in a remote area of Texas. (SpaceX via AP)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX launched its shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas on Wednesday, but the 6 1/2-minute test flight ended in an explosive fireball at touchdown. The full-scale, stainless steel model — 160 feet (50 meters) tall and 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter — soared out over the Gulf of Mexico. The entire flight — as dramatic and flashy as it gets, even by SpaceX standards — lasted six minutes and 42 seconds. “Anybody who knows how hard this stuff is is impressed by today’s Starship test.”Two lower, shorter SpaceX test flights earlier this year from Boca Chica, Texas — a quiet coastal village before SpaceX moved in — used more rudimentary versions of Starship.
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Crazed driver struck truck, tried to run over couple, deputies say
Read full article: Crazed driver struck truck, tried to run over couple, deputies sayMONROE COUNTY, Fla. Deputies suspect the crazed driver of a stolen red, four-door, Ford Focus was suffering from a case of road rage when he hit a black truck and attempted to run over two people on Tuesday night in the Florida Keys. According to the Monroe County Sheriffs Office, Deputy Brandon White responded to a Circle K gas station in Big Coppitt Key to find the two victims. White chased him into a dead-end street in Boca Chica, held him at gunpoint and arrested him. He later identified the suspect behind the wheel as Alexander Medina, 29, of Lake Worth. Records show Medina is facing charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage, resisting an officer, aggravated assault and grand theft of a motor vehicle.