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...with NASA's astronauts reduced to hitching rides on Soyuz modules, the private-rocket crowd is fired up because a privately funded ship might be ready for takeoff within a few years. Since 1996, several teams have been racing to develop a three-person spacecraft that could reach the edge of the atmosphere and repeat the feat within two weeks--the qualifications required to win the $10 million X Prize created by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis to encourage private spaceflight. Leading that race is legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan, who is gearing up for another test after his rocket plane broke...
...ruled out terrorism as the cause of a plane crash early Saturday that killed all 148 passengers and crew, blaming a technical fault. The Boeing 737 belonging to Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines was carrying mostly French tourists returning to Paris . It plunged into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said France would do everything it could to help Egypt find out what caused the fault. A report Sunday said Flash Airlines was banned from flying to Switzerland after safety shortcomings were detected during a routine check at Zurich airport in October 2002. Impasse...
...special guest Jonathan B.C. Tannen ’07—who was cut in the preliminary auditions for the contest—brought the house to its feet with his performance of “Baby Got Brains,” a takeoff on Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back...
Aspiring singers, dedicated fans and a “Simon” were all featured in Saturday night’s “Harvard Idol”—a takeoff on the hit Fox television show “American Idol...
...then we were off. The takeoff was smooth, but the speed and the bank of the plane was full of G forces that pushed me back into my deep blue leather (but surprisingly narrow) seat. I strained to see the disappearing English countryside out a window that's no bigger than a salad plate. Passengers struggled to hold their video cameras steady while the plane thrust upward...