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By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

SpaceX Starship rocket fails minutes after launching from Texas



215 seconds. Ok. So eight so. Right. Yeah, zero. Post launch operations to stir up your chamber pressure three seconds into the test flight of the inaugural vehicle tower picks over the Paulson reports first stages. No, what *** when the green at twice the thrust of the Saturn additional signal that we throttle down and throttled back up. Going through the period of maximum aerodynamic pressure velocity increases the dense of the atmosphere is decreasing, lessening stress on the vehicle to call out next. Now continuing to watch the first stage as we head down range 100 seconds into flight. Our next major activity is going to be shut down of the first stage, Houston tracking station. Now acquiring the vehicle, we will get separation of super heavy and ignition of the starship engines. When starship separates, we light up six engines in *** staggered sequence and if all goes well, those six engines will burn for almost 6.5 minutes on board. View from and views of the raft engines on the second stage as we prepare for state separation after state separation, the first stage will flip and begin *** boost back maneuver for landing in the Gulf continuing to fly two minutes, 40 seconds. Let's get ready for main engine cut off. Yeah, beginning the flip for stage separation. Ok. Ok. It as of right now, we are awaiting stage separation where *** starship should separate from the super heavy booster right now. It looks like we saw the start of the flip, but obviously, we're seeing from the ground cameras, the entire starship stack continuing to rotate. We should have had separation by now. Obviously, this does not appear to be *** nominal situation. Yeah, it does appear to be spinning. But I do want to remind everyone that everything after clearing the tower was icing on the cake. And there as you saw as we promised and to the scholarship inaugural integrated tax rate, everyone here absolutely pumped to clear the pad and make it this far into the test light, the first integrated light of the booster and the starship vehicle live view there of our control center at Starbase, uh which we refer to as star command as we said before. Obviously, we wanted to make it all the way through. But to get this far, honestly, is amazing if you're just joining us, starship just experienced what we call *** rapid unscheduled disassembly or *** rod during ascent. But now this was *** development test. This is the first test flight to starship. And the goal was to gather the data, as we said, clear the pad and get ready to go again. So you never know exactly what's going to happen. But as we promised, excitement is guaranteed, and Starship gave us *** rather spectacular end to what was truly an incredible test. Thus far as we mentioned at the start of today's program, any and all the data that we collected during the test is going to help us with further development of starship and it's going to improve the vehicle's reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi planetary. It's really worth noting that the flight path was designed to be over water and all the air and sea space along with that flight path and those areas we cleared in advance of the test. And of course, we're going to be coordinating with local authorities for the recovery operations. But honestly, what an exciting morning. Oh my gosh. We had *** successful lift off from star base Texas at 8 28 AM central time. We cleared the tower, which honestly was our only hope.

SpaceX's giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.Elon Musk's company aimed to send the nearly 400-foot Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites.The plan called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn't happen. The rocket began to tumble and then exploded four minutes into the flight, plummeting into the gulf. After separating, the spacecraft was supposed to continue east and attempt to circle the world, before crashing into the Pacific near Hawaii.Throngs of spectators watched from South Padre Island, several miles away from the Boca Chica Beach launch site, which was off-limits. As it lifted off, the crowd screamed: "Go, baby, go!"The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, eventually, Mars. NASA has reserved a Starship for its next moonwalking team, and rich tourists are already booking lunar flybys.It was the second launch attempt. Monday's try was scrapped by a frozen booster valve.At 394 feet and nearly 17 million pounds of thrust, Starship easily surpasses NASA's moon rockets — past, present and future. The stainless steel rocket is designed to be fully reusable with fast turnaround, dramatically lowering costs, similar to what SpaceX's smaller Falcon rockets have done soaring from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nothing was to be saved from the test flight.The futuristic spacecraft flew several miles into the air during testing a few years ago, landing successfully only once. But this was to be the inaugural launch of the first-stage booster with 33 methane-fueled engines.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas —

SpaceX's giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

Elon Musk's company aimed to send the nearly 400-foot Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites.

The plan called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn't happen. The rocket began to tumble and then exploded four minutes into the flight, plummeting into the gulf. After separating, the spacecraft was supposed to continue east and attempt to circle the world, before crashing into the Pacific near Hawaii.

Throngs of spectators watched from South Padre Island, several miles away from the Boca Chica Beach launch site, which was off-limits. As it lifted off, the crowd screamed: "Go, baby, go!"

The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, eventually, Mars. NASA has reserved a Starship for its next moonwalking team, and rich tourists are already booking lunar flybys.

It was the second launch attempt. Monday's try was scrapped by a frozen booster valve.

At 394 feet and nearly 17 million pounds of thrust, Starship easily surpasses NASA's moon rockets — past, present and future. The stainless steel rocket is designed to be fully reusable with fast turnaround, dramatically lowering costs, similar to what SpaceX's smaller Falcon rockets have done soaring from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nothing was to be saved from the test flight.

The futuristic spacecraft flew several miles into the air during testing a few years ago, landing successfully only once. But this was to be the inaugural launch of the first-stage booster with 33 methane-fueled engines.

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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.


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Blue Origin poised to send NFL veteran Michael Strahan, five others into space



mm hmm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Tomorrow we're having another man uh and um William Shatner is going to be on it. Um So it's time Captain Kirk actually, physically got up into space. I'm kind of excited about that. He and Mr Speaker, we're the ones that got me interested in space and science fiction and and everything else. So from junior high age up to now, where William Shatner is actually in our town fixing to go up uh into space, you know, it's kind of like the whole circle now, for me, this is a big deal for our town in terms of uh tourism, you know, the hotels are filling up, the restaurants are staying busy, the gas stations are staying busy, more so than usual. Uh we have pretty good traffic through here, but we're wanting people to come in and stay for a while and uh this is giving us a focal point to get people at least that are interested in space travel and science fiction to come out here and see that it's not just fiction anymore. Look,
mm hmm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Tomorrow we're having another man uh and um William Shatner is going to be on it. Um So it's time Captain Kirk actually, physically got up into space. I'm kind of excited about that. He and Mr Speaker, we're the ones that got me interested in space and science fiction and and everything else. So from junior high age up to now, where William Shatner is actually in our town fixing to go up uh into space, you know, it's kind of like the whole circle now, for me, this is a big deal for our town in terms of uh tourism, you know, the hotels are filling up, the restaurants are staying busy, the gas stations are staying busy, more so than usual. Uh we have pretty good traffic through here, but we're wanting people to come in and stay for a while and uh this is giving us a focal point to get people at least that are interested in space travel and science fiction to come out here and see that it's not just fiction anymore. Look,

Blue Origin poised to send NFL veteran Michael Strahan, five others into space


Video above: Blue Origin brings space tourism to Texas townJeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, is about to send former NFL great Michael Strahan into space — with a football. The former New York Giant prepped Saturday for a morning blastoff from West Texas. Five others will join him on the 10-minute flight, including the eldest daughter of the first American in space, Alan Shepard. Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket is named for him.Strahan packed his Super Bowl ring and his newly retired No. 92 jersey for the ride. Bezos also put a football aboard that will go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.Laura Shepard Churchley is taking up a tiny part of her father's Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, which soared in 1961, as well as a few mementos that accompanied him to the moon on Apollo 14 in 1971.This is Blue Origin's third passenger flight. Bezos, who founded Amazon six years before Blue Origin, was on the debut launch in July. The second, in October, included actor William Shatner — Captain James Kirk of TV's original "Star Trek."The reusable, automated capsule will be especially crowded this time. Instead of four, there will be six flying, including four paying customers.Blue Origin originally targeted Thursday for the launch, but high wind forced a delay.

Video above: Blue Origin brings space tourism to Texas town

Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, is about to send former NFL great Michael Strahan into space — with a football.

The former New York Giant prepped Saturday for a morning blastoff from West Texas. Five others will join him on the 10-minute flight, including the eldest daughter of the first American in space, Alan Shepard. Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket is named for him.

Strahan packed his Super Bowl ring and his newly retired No. 92 jersey for the ride. Bezos also put a football aboard that will go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Laura Shepard Churchley is taking up a tiny part of her father's Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, which soared in 1961, as well as a few mementos that accompanied him to the moon on Apollo 14 in 1971.

This is Blue Origin's third passenger flight. Bezos, who founded Amazon six years before Blue Origin, was on the debut launch in July. The second, in October, included actor William Shatner — Captain James Kirk of TV's original "Star Trek."

The reusable, automated capsule will be especially crowded this time. Instead of four, there will be six flying, including four paying customers.

Blue Origin originally targeted Thursday for the launch, but high wind forced a delay.


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What you need to know: Disney Genie Service launches at Walt Disney World



BECAME THE BACKDROP FOR REAL HEADLINES. >> THERE ARE SO MANY EXCITING THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED AT WALT DISNEY WORLD OVER THE YEARS, IT IS HARD TO PICK ONE. >> WE HAVE PICKED THE TOP FIVE. DISNEY WORLD’S FIRST FOOTNOTE IN HISTORY CAME TWO YEARS AFTER IT OPEN,ED NOVEMBER 17, 1973. >> PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON WAS THERE SHORTLY AFTER WATERGATE AND WAS GIVING A SPEECH TO THE PRESS AT ONE OF THE BALLROOMS. THERE WAS A QUESTION AND ANSWER CTSEION AFTER AND HE BLURTED OUT -- >> I AM NOT A CROOK. >> AND THAT BECAME HUGE IN THE AMERICAN LEXICON AND A BIG POP CULTURE MOMENT. >> EVEN PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT RICHAR NDIXON PROBAYBL KNOW "I AM NOT A CROOK." MOST PEOE,PL HOWEVER, DO TNO REALIZE THAT WAS UTTERED ON THE GROUNDS O WALT DISNEY WORLD. >> PEOPLE HAVE GOTO TKNOW -- >> YEARS LATER, IT WAS THE BACKDROP FOR HEADLINES AGAIN, AND A BREAKUP THAT ROCKED ROCK ' ’N’ ROLL IN DECEMBER OF 1974, THE END OF THE BEATLES. >> THE WRITING WAS ALREADY ON THE WALL BY THE LATE 1960’S. >> BOB THOMPSON IS A POP CULTURE EXPERT AND PROFESSOR AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. HE SAYS THE BREAKUP OF THE BEATLES UNRAVELED OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS, BUT BY DECEERMB OF 1970 FOUR, PAUL, GEORGE AND RINGO HAD ALL SIGNED THE PAPERWORK DISSOLVING THE PARTNERSP.HI >> AND THEY ONLY NEED ONE MORE SIGNATURE, JOHN LENNON. WHERE DOES HE HAPPEN TO BE WHEN THE DOCUMENTATIONS ARRIVE? THE POLYNESIAN RESORT IN NONE OTHER THAN DISNEY WORLD. SO WHILE DISNEY WORLD DIDN’T CAUSE THE BREAKUP OF THE BEATLES, THE OFFICIAL LAST CHAPTER IN THE BREAKUP OF THE BEATLES ACTUALLY HAPPENED WIINTH SIGHT OF THE MAGIC KINGDOM. >> CELEBRATIONS,OT N BREAKUPS, ARE MORE DISNEY’S STYLE, SO LET’S GET THE PARTY STARTEDITH W OUR NEXT TOP MOMENT FROM 1987. >> I AM GOING TO DISNEY WORLD. >> WORDS THAT HAVE NOW BEEN FIVE UTTERED BY EVERYONE FROM MI SS AMERICA TO REALY ITTV STARS. IT ALL BEGAN IN EARNEST WITH SUPER BOWL 21 MVP QUARTERBACK PHIL SIMMS AFTER THE NEW YORK GIANTS BEAT E BUTHFFALO BIS.LL >> THE STORY GOES HEAS W PAID, SOME REPORTS SAY $50,000, OTHERS $75,000. >> WHEN I HRDEA HIM SAY THAT, I THOUGHT THAT WAS SO COLD. -- SO COOL. 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What you need to know: Disney Genie Service launches at Walt Disney World


Video above: Disney World's top five moments in pop-culture historyDisney Genie debuted at Walt Disney World Tuesday, and that means big changes for guests and all Disney fans.Disney Genie is a complimentary and convenient new digital service designed to create your best Disney day, according to Disney Parks Blog. The service is meant to make planning easier, provide more flexibility and better tools for those who visit Walt Disney World."Built right into the My Disney Experience and Disneyland apps, Disney Genie service will maximize your park time, so you can have more fun," according to Disney Parks Blog.It includes a personalized itinerary feature that will "quickly and seamlessly" map out an entire day. From specific attractions, dining experiences and entertainment, to general interests like Disney princesses, villains, Pixar, Star Wars, thrill rides and more, all the user needs to do is tell Disney Genie what they want to do, and it will do the planning for them. Popular Genie features include:Get Itinerary Updates from Morning to NightFind Your Favorites at a GlanceEnjoy More Flexibility and FunUsers can create their own personal tip board to instantly see their favorites. It will display current and forecasted future wait times, helping guests predict when they might experience quicker entry to attractions.You can also join a virtual queue at certain attractions, make dining and experience reservations, mobile order food at many locations, get help from a virtual assistant and more. Disney Genie+ service (available for purchase): For the price of $15 per ticket per day at Walt Disney World Resort and $20 per ticket per day at Disneyland Resort, choose the next available time to arrive at a variety of attractions and experiences using the Lightning Lane entrance. You can make one selection at a time, throughout the day – from classics like Haunted Mansion to thrill rides like Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and newer favorites like Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run (attractions subject to limited availability). This convenient option is the next evolution of the fan-favorite Disney MaxPass service from Disneyland Resort, according to Disney Parks Blog.For more details on Disney Genie, click here.

Video above: Disney World's top five moments in pop-culture history

Disney Genie debuted at Walt Disney World Tuesday, and that means big changes for guests and all Disney fans.

Disney Genie is a complimentary and convenient new digital service designed to create your best Disney day, according to Disney Parks Blog.

The service is meant to make planning easier, provide more flexibility and better tools for those who visit Walt Disney World.

"Built right into the My Disney Experience and Disneyland apps, Disney Genie service will maximize your park time, so you can have more fun," according to Disney Parks Blog.

It includes a personalized itinerary feature that will "quickly and seamlessly" map out an entire day. From specific attractions, dining experiences and entertainment, to general interests like Disney princesses, villains, Pixar, Star Wars, thrill rides and more, all the user needs to do is tell Disney Genie what they want to do, and it will do the planning for them.

Popular Genie features include:

  • Get Itinerary Updates from Morning to Night
  • Find Your Favorites at a Glance
  • Enjoy More Flexibility and Fun

Users can create their own personal tip board to instantly see their favorites. It will display current and forecasted future wait times, helping guests predict when they might experience quicker entry to attractions.

You can also join a virtual queue at certain attractions, make dining and experience reservations, mobile order food at many locations, get help from a virtual assistant and more.

Disney Genie+ service (available for purchase): For the price of $15 per ticket per day at Walt Disney World Resort and $20 per ticket per day at Disneyland Resort, choose the next available time to arrive at a variety of attractions and experiences using the Lightning Lane entrance. You can make one selection at a time, throughout the day – from classics like Haunted Mansion to thrill rides like Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and newer favorites like Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run (attractions subject to limited availability). This convenient option is the next evolution of the fan-favorite Disney MaxPass service from Disneyland Resort, according to Disney Parks Blog.

For more details on Disney Genie, click here.


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