3 d. ago Global Airlines: Cost of tickets as new British airline launches first flight

Global Airlines is selling tickets for its first flight one month before the trip from Glasgow to New York City - founder and chief executive James Asquith says the journey to this point has been 'massively challenging'

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3 d. ago New British airline opens first transatlantic flight sale – here’s how much tickets cost

Exclusive: Inaugural tickets from Glasgow to New York are 88% more expensive than corresponding flights from Edinburgh on the same dates

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4 d. ago Watch in full: Katy Perry launched into space on Blue Origin rocket

Watch as Katy Perry is launched into space on board an all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday, 14 April.

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4 d. ago Katy Perry heads to space: Live Blue Origin launch updates as singer leads A

LIVE UPDATES: Follow live updates as Katy Perry and five women launch into space from a Blue Origin rocket in the first ever all female space mission.

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4 d. ago Watch live: Katy Perry launched into space on Blue Origin rocket

Watch live as Katy Perry is due to be launched into space on board an all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday, 14 April.

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4 d. ago Full list of celebrities Blue Origin has launched into space ahead of historic Katy Perry space flight

Blue Origin's all-female crew launches into space today aboard its space tourism rocket

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1 week ago Under Trump and Musk, billionaires wield unprecedented influence over US national security

Government officials and contractors long controlled spy operations. Now the likes of Musk and Bezos are in controlJust days before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its New Glenn rocket, named for John Glenn, the Mercury astronaut who was the first American to orbit the Earth. Around 2am on 16 January, the 30-story rocket powered by seven engines blasted off into the Florida night from Cape Canaveral’s historic launch complex 36, which first served as a Nasa launch site in 1962.The flight’s end was marred by a failure to bring the booster rocket back for further use, but the successful launch and orbit still marked a watershed moment for Blue Origin in its bid to compete with SpaceX, the company owned by Elon Musk, for dominance over American spy satellite operations. During the Trump administration, it is likely that both companies will play significant roles in placing spy satellites into Earth orbit, ...

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2 w. ago A private European aerospace startup completes the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle

A private European aerospace startup says it has successfully completed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle from Norway

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3 w. ago A European startup is set to launch an orbital rocket on its first test flight

A private European aerospace company is set to make the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle

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