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NASA chief hails SpaceX's 1st Starship launch despite explosion

NASA leaders congratulated SpaceX on the launch of the massive Starship vehicle that will play a key part in the agency's upcoming Artemis moon missions.

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Lyrid meteor display set to dazzle night sky

Viewers are expected to see up to 18 meteors per hour.

The Independent UK

When is Eid ul Fitr 2023 with moon-sighting forecasts for UK, Saudi Arabia, Morocco

Muslims are now getting the last minute preparations done for Eid ul Fitr

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Fighting light pollution, West Texas effort preserves one of the largest dark sky reserves

FORT DAVIS, Texas — To sit under the vast expanse of stars is to imagine swimming across shining, stellar rivers, creeks and tributaries. But to sit here also is to feel that lump in your throat and skip in your heart, realizing everything you know is far smaller than the…

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Spaceport slated for Cape York attracts global interest

The Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland could be home to Australia's next major spaceport with plans for large-scale launches before 2030.

AAP

Queensland teen bound for US space camp amid push for Weipa rocket launch

Toby Fealy has been selected to attend a two-week space camp in the US. There aren't many options for him to pursue his dream at home in Far North Queensland, but that might be about to change.

ABC News

Watch Cygnus cargo spacecraft leave the space station Friday morning

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft will depart the International Space Station on Friday morning (April 21), and you can watch the action live.

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SpaceX Starship explosion fallout covers city with ‘particulate’

The rocket’s explosion reportedly rattled doors up to five miles away

The Independent UK

Dead NASA satellite crashes to Earth over the Sahara Desert

NASA's dead, 660-pound (300 kilograms) RHESSI spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday night (April 19) near the Sudan-Egypt border.

Space

Watching SpaceX's Starship launch as the world's largest rocket felt simply unreal (video)

Here's what it was like to see (and hear) SpaceX's Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, lift off for the first time.

Space

Musk hails ‘success’ after world’s biggest rocket lifts off – then explodes

Elon Musk is celebrating "success" after his SpaceX rocket blasted off on its maiden flight, but dramatically exploded just minutes later.

The New Daily

Look! Hubble Image Celebrates the Telescope’s 33rd Anniversary with a Cosmic “Laser Lightshow”

This gorgeous Hubble image is a celebration of the telescope's 33rd space birthday.

Inverse

Decades-old NASA satellite CRASHES down to Earth and lands in Sahara Desert

The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, known as Rhessi for short, is set to plummet back to the planet’s surface after 21 years in space

Daily Mirror

See SpaceX Starship Launch Destroy Dodge Caravan Parked Near Pad

The minivan is still in one piece, which is more than can be said for Starship and the Super Heavy booster which exploded mid-flight.

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Irish Mirror

SpaceX Starship explodes during first test flight of rocket due to fly astronauts to Moon

The US space agency, NASA, chose the Starship spacecraft to bring astronauts to the Moon in 2025 on a mission known as Artemis III

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SpaceX Starship's explosive test flight: What did we just see?

SpaceX's Starship packed a lot of action into its four minutes of flight today (April 20). Here are some important moments that caught our eye.

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SpaceX Starship's debut launch attempt seen from space (satellite photos)

An American weather satellite witnessed the semi-successful debut launch of SpaceX's Starship megarocket from space.

Space

See dwarf planet Haumea at its closest to Earth in 285 years tonight

Dwarf planet Haumea reaches both opposition and perigee on April 20, making this a prime opportunity to see the dwarf planet in the night sky.

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The 12 best ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ memes after SpaceX rocket explosion

Here's the fun new phrase everyone's using, including SpaceX.

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Relive SpaceX's explosive 1st Starship test flight in these incredible launch photos

SpaceX launched a fully stacked Starship on April 20 in an epic first test flight that led to some incredible launch pictures.

Los Angeles Times

Massive Starship rocket explodes after launch; SpaceX calls it a ‘win’

On its first test flight Thursday morning, SpaceX's massive, uncrewed Starship rocket roared off the launch pad, soared into the south Texas sky for a few minutes, but ultimately exploded into a trail of smoke.

Daily Record

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket blows up just minutes after take off

The giant Starship rocket launched in Texas today, April 20, but exploded just four minutes after take off.

Chicago Sun-Times

SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

The flight plan had called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn’t happen.

Manchester Evening News

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after historic launch

The biggest space rocket ever developed blew up over the ocean

Wales Online

SpaceX’s Starship rocket explodes minutes after blast-off

The mission ended with a bang

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