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Watch Virgin Galactic launch Richard Branson to space, Joey Roulette

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Update 10:50 AM: The livestream appeared to experience technical difficulties ahead of takeoff. The plane took off around 10:40 AM. Soon after, the stream started. Original story continues below. Virgin Galactic will launch Richard Branson and three company employees to the edge of space on the morning of Sunday, July 11th. The company is promising quite a show for the …

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Watch Virgin Galactic launch Richard Branson to space, Joey Roulette

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Virgin Galactic will launch Richard Branson and three company employees to the edge of space on the morning of Sunday, July 11th. The company is promising quite a show for the mission: Stephen Colbert will host the mission’s livestream, singer-songwriter Khalid will reportedly perform a new single live onstage following the spaceplane’s landing, and Branson has said he’ll “announce something …

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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity 22 launch with Richard Branson: Here’s when to watch and what to know., ,

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On July 11, Virgin Galactic will make a giant leap toward commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company will launch its first fully crewed flight of its SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity with a special passenger on board: the company’s billionaire founder Richard Branson. Branson, three crewmates and two pilots will launch on the historic flight after being carried into launch position by …

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Tesla finally begins shipping ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta version 9 after a long delay, Andrew J. Hawkins

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Tesla began sending out over-the-air software updates for its long-awaited “Full Self-Driving” beta version 9, the definitely-not-autonomous-but-certainly-advanced driver assist system. As promised by Elon Musk, the software update (2021.4.18.12) began uploading after midnight on Friday, giving thousands of Tesla owners who have purchased the FSD option access to the feature, which enables drivers to use many of Autopilot’s advanced driver-assist …

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Kickstart your weekend with this week’s best tech deals, Brandon Widder

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The weekend has arrived, bringing with it an assortment of great discounts on everything from student-centric laptops to headphones to some games that launched as recently as this week. We’ve rounded up many of the highlights below, and if you’re looking for the best of the best and not just what’s currently on sale, we’ve also updated our comprehensive guides …

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Billionaires and Space — The Right Race (op-ed), ,

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As the billionaire space race heats up, it’s easy to get the wrong message. Having no understanding of how we got to this point, the media often frame it as an elite group of rich boys trying to literally one-up each other as they thrust themselves into the sky. They are. But what is missing from these reports, editorials, and …

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On This Day in Space! July 10, 1962: 1st private space mission launches, ,

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On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live television from Europe to the United States. This was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Telstar 1 in Pictures: Legacy of 1st TV Communications Satellite Image of the Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, …