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Heritage Images/Getty Images The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over the last 55 years, serving as the iconic Air Force …

Pam Melroy, one of only two women to ever command a NASA space shuttle, is channeling her decades of experience across the U.S. Air Force, DARPA, the FAA and private industry to pioneer a revolutionary new rocket engine technology. Melroy, NASA’s former Deputy Administrator, has joined the Board of Directors for Houston-based startup Venus Aerospace just months after the company …

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“The Nasa guys had realised that women might be women and therefore, while they were flying, it might be the time of the month when they got their periods,” Sullivan told me in an earlier interview. “They put some tampons in the PPK for Sally to look at and she pulled one out and it was like unreeling a string …

Another U.S. military mini shuttle blasted off Thursday night to conduct classified experiments in space. Launched by SpaceX, the space plane with no one aboard took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It’s the eighth such flight for the test vehicles known as X-37B. This one will test laser communications and safe navigation without GPS, according to the U.S. Space Force. …

Watch Live: Secretive mini space shuttle set for Space Coast launch; late-night sonic boom possible  Orlando Sentinel USSF-36 Mission  SpaceX Live coverage: SpaceX to launch X-37B military spaceplane on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center  Spaceflight Now US Space Force prepares X-37B Mission 8 for launch  spaceforce.mil SpaceX readies for 8th flight of U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Test Vehicle  Spectrum News 13 Source …