If Blue Origin wants to give SpaceX a run for its money, it has a lot of catching up to do
Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon ...
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If Blue Origin wants to give SpaceX a run for its money, it has a lot of catching up to do
New Glenn — named after the first American to reach orbit, John Glenn — is the ... SpaceX's most ambitious project. Leroy Chiao, a retired NASA astronaut who consulted for SpaceX on its ...
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Ex-NASA astronaut who nearly collided with two ‘metallic orbs’ while piloting plane reveals they had ‘no visible means of propulsion’
“They came right at me,” Dr. Leroy Chiao ... “They were about 20 feet away,” Chiao recounted. “They were about three feet in diameter. One on top of the other.” ...
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Ex-NASA astronaut probes ‘military link’ after shock near-miss with ‘two metallic orbs flying at 150mph’ at 9,000ft
Astronaut Leroy Chiao was flying his private ... About 100-150 mph," Chiao told the Post. He joked that if they had hit him, "no one would have known what happened to me. They probably would ...
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Former NASA Astronaut Puzzled by Metallic Orbs He Encountered While Flying
Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao says he had a baffling ... A crash with the objects could've ended in disaster, Chiao claimed. "Obviously if I collided with them it would have been really bad," he ...
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Space Force's secretive X-37B space plane soars past 1 year in orbit
That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) has silently slipped past one-year of flight time. The craft is engaged in performing aerobrake maneuvers, a technique to alter its orbit ...