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Crypto trader and vlogger Farhan Hotak traveling to the Shah Wali Kot District in Afghanistan.Farhan Hotak isn't your typical 22 year-old Afghan.In the last week, he helped his family of ten flee the province of Zabul in southern…

Another week, another billionaire with a rocket company goes into space.Last week, Richard Branson earned his astronaut wings flying a spaceplane from Virgin Galactic, a company he founded 14 years ago, to over 80 miles above the New Mexico…

Still, the forces felt by the passengers on the way down will be greater than on the way up, reaching six times the force of gravity.Once the plane is back in the atmosphere, the tail booms rotate back down, and the plane will glide to a…

Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger flight of his space company Blue Origin, which the company plans to launch on July 20, the billionaire announced Monday."I want to go on this flight because it's the thing I've wanted to do all my…

A bird flies by in the foreground as a Southwest Airlines jet comes in for a landing at McCarran International Airport on May 25, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Ethan Miller | Getty ImagesSouthwest Airlines said it is delaying plans to resume…

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, will launch a rocket with passengers on board for the first time in July, the company announced on Wednesday.A seat on the flight that will carry six astronauts on a short excursion to…

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-73V jet leaves Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois on April 6, 2021.Kamil Krzaczynski | AFP | Getty ImagesAirlines spent much of the last year worrying about having too many people busy after…

This time NASA's Mars robotic helicopter Ingenuity did not return.That was intentional.On Friday, Ingenuity, which last month became the first machine to fly like an airplane or a helicopter on another world, took off for the fifth time.…

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched and landed the latest prototype of his Starship rocket on Wednesday in the fifth test flight at high altitude of the system.The spaceship prototype rocket Serial Number 15 or SN15 launched and flew up to 10…

NASA's Mars helicopter soared again, went faster, and on its third journey through the blurry air of Mars covered a total distance about the length of an American football field.Like the first two flights, the small experimental flying…