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referring to his spacecraft. Eventually, he did launch, spending 15 minutes and 28 seconds ascending to space and then splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. After six manned Mercury missions came ...

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The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) broke ground on the first phase of the I-5 Rose Quarter project this week—an event nearly a decade in the making. But the occasion commenced without ...

Apex Space, one of a growing number of US startups building a speedy production line of spacecraft platforms, closed a $200 ...

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