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After 17-hour flight, Solar Impulse plane lands in Ohio, home of the Wright Brothers
The Swiss-built...
Round-the-world Solar Impulse plane dodges bad weather, lands in Oklahoma
After crossing the Himalayas and the Pacific, the fuel-free Solar Impulse 2 plane overcame the Rockies on Thursday during the Arizona-to-Oklahoma...
Solar Impulse round-the-world plane lands in California after 2.5-day flight
Two and a half days after setting out from Hawaii, pilot Bertrand Piccard made a picture-postcard arrival in California...
SpaceX lands a rocket at sea after launching extra room to space station
SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule today with an expandable module for the International Space Station, and then...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin does it again: Used rocket goes into space and lands intact
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on another flight test to outer-space altitudes today, and brought it back to a safe landing. The uncrewed flight at Bezos’ West Texas test...
UW lands $16M to develop implantable devices that fix paralyzed limbs
University of Washington researchers won a four-year, $ 16...
SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch – and lands in Florida!
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket for the first time in six months today, and then brought he first-stage booster back down for a first-ever Florida landing. “The Falcon has landed!” SpaceX’s launch commentator announced. Hundreds of SpaceX employees cheered the...
Tech Moves: Adaptive CFO joins Trupanion board; Avvo lands recruiting bigwig; Automic names CTO
— Pet insurance company Trupanion announced changes to its board of directors on Friday, as Adaptive Biotechnologies CFO Chad Cohen was appointed to the board. He takes over for Peter Beaumont, a longtime veterinary industry expert who stepped down after five years on the board. Cohen is well known in the Seattle tech scene, having...
Taser lands big order from London Police for 22K body-worn cameras
Taser announced today that it will ship 22,000 body-worn cameras to the London Metropolitan Police. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser recently completed a pilot program with the London Police that helped the department reduce its officer complaints by 33 percent. Shares of...