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Elon Musk names first passenger for SpaceX Moon flight

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, has signed up the world's first private passenger to fly around the moon. The mission, which will be aboard the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) -the next-generation reusable launch vehi

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes during test firing in Florida

An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday, shaking buildings miles (km) away and sending a thick plume of black smoke pouring into the air.

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Nirvana Travel participates at How to Rocket exhibition

Abu Dhabi-based Nirvana Travel and Tourism participated and acted as a platinum sponsor at the How to Rocket Event, which held in Dubai last week, to promote the company’s extensive retail and commercial travel services. Ala

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IS rocket expert Khadijah killed in drone strike

Jasim Khadijah, an Islamic State member believed to be responsible for a deadly attack by militants on US troops in northern Iraq, has been killed in a drone strike, a spokesman of the anti-IS coalition said in Baghdad on Sunday.

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N Korea launches long-range rocket ‘carrying satellite’

North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday carrying what it has called a satellite, but its neighbours and Washington denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in defiance of UN sanctions and just weeks after a nuclear bomb test.

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IS launches rocket attack on Egypt navy vessel

CAIRO Egypt's Islamic State affiliate said on Thursday (July 16) it fired a rocket at an Egyptian naval vessel in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Israel and the Gaza Strip. The militant group Sin

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Middle East food demand to soar 50pc

Demand for food in the Middle East is expected to rocket by 50 per cent in the next two decades as a result of booming populations, according to an expert. Global Crop Diversity Trust co-founder and senior adviser Dr Geoffrey Hawt

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Nasa rocket for space station explodes on liftoff

An unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from a commercial launch pad in Virginia on Tuesday, marking the first accident since Nasa turned to private operators to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

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Russia to launch new heavy-lift space rocket

Russia plans to test launch its new heavy-lift Angara space rocket on December 25, Interfax news agency quoted a source in the space industry as saying on Friday. The Angara is the first new family of space rockets developed by Ru

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Israel strikes Gaza after militants resume rocket fire

Israel said it launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in the month-long war. As rocket-warning sirens sounded in

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