This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... flies around in his map program, giddy, spinning ...

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A space capsule that traveled 1.4 million miles around the moon was on display at a NASA facility in Ohio. NASA says the ...

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The FAA has proposed fines of $633,009 against SpaceX for violating regulations in launches of its Falcon 9 rocket. Musk ...

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