Texas

15 Apr

SpaceX gets US FAA launch licence, Starship test flight likely on April 17

San Francisco, April 15, The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued the long-awaited launch licence to SpaceX for the Starship orbital flight test. With the clearance in hand, the first test flight will likely take place on April 17, SpaceX said in a tweet. The FAA in a statement said: "After a comprehensive licence evaluation process, the FAA determined SpaceX met all safety, environmental, policy, payload, airspace integration and financial responsibility requirements." "Targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas," SpaceX wrote in…

25 May

18 children killed in Texas school shooting, Biden rages (Lead)

Washington: A gunman killed 18 students and one adult at an elementary school in Texas in a second mass shooting in the US in the last 10 days. The gunman, identified as Salvador Ramos, first shot his grandmother, who is alive but in critical condition, before hitting Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 83 miles west of San Antonio in Texas, with two assault rifles that he had bought shortly after he turned 18 recently. He was killed by law enforcement officers. His motive had not been ascertained yet.A white gunman, also 18, had opened fire at a grocery store in…