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Rolled out the worlds largest airplane equipped with six engines, 28 wheels and a wingspan longer than a football peeled and wider than the international space station. sorry, you wont be able to catch a wide on this aircraft but it will be hurling rockets carrying satellites into space orbit. test flights are expected to begin in early 201. turning to our buried lead, stories we dont think are getting enough attention. according to the v.a. more than 600,000 veterans they have treated have be...

Pete: welcome back outdoors for quick headlines on "fox & friends". the u.s. beefing up itself nuclear arsenal, scientists releasing video of the first test flights for ungraded nuclear bomb, its over the nevada desert. its expected to be combat ready within the next several years. plus the navy with nearly 200 fighter jets back into the skies, recently grounded after pilot experienced oxygen poisoning in the cockpit. pilots can now run test flights while oxygen are resolved. abby: good to hear....

Heroes of the mercury 7 astronauts who made us sit up and pay attention in school as their test flights occurred one after another that got us on the way to the moon. if there was anything that epitomized the role of an astronaut, this was the guy, john glenn. he and the colleagues were the people i emulated or wanted to rub shoulders with some day. i think one of the measures that the country and nasa gave me in my astronaut career was meeting people like rusty schweiker and john glenn. it was ...

I understand this to be a two-part test. a nasa remote fixed wing aircraft thats going to fly the supplies from the airport to lonesome pine airport. then doens will take packages to the wise county fair counteds. how does this affect what ultimately will be used here? >> well this particular area of drone capability is one a lot of people are interested in. this particular flight would be first within the united states. this is something that the united states military has been doing for a litt...

Good to see you. developing now in cape canaveral, one step closer to flying their own spacecraft. spacex launched its dragon capsule, one of two commercial ships that will fly future astronauts. test flights simulated what would happen in the event of a rocket failure on the launch pad. the three main parachutes blossomed and lowered the aircraft safely on the surf. according to nasa the abort test appeared to be perfect. coming up at the top of the hour mayor of baltimore is expected to an...

From that same storm system. thats it. over to you. weather caused major problems and delays in the search for crashed airasia flight 8501. recovery crews from around the world including the u.s. scouring the java sea looking for debris and human remains in the doomed flight. rough seas making it nearly impossible for drivers to explore possible wreckage. so far only 8 of 162 bodies have been recovered. at the stroke of midnight, many american businesses given something to worry about. the t...

>> reporter: good morning to you and merry christmas to you, betty. santa has posted us outside his reindeer pen to make sure that all eight of them stay put. i dont know if you can tell, but these guys are some very rambunctious characters. theyre desperate to take off for christmas eve, but theyve got to wait. theyve got to wait till wednesday night. but you can see theyre already wide awake here at this early hour, just anxious to go. the one with the fur is comet. the one with the antlers, t...

The 44-year-old extremely rare rhino died sunday apparently from old age. attempts to breed him with a female white rhino at the zoo were unsuccessful. poaching has pushed his species to the brink of extinction. from business insider, this plane will be able to fly anywhere in the world in four hours. british firm reaction engine says its new engine technology will allow the skyline to fly at mock five, five times the speed of sound. also able to fly in space, they say. test flights are planne...

Laps around the earth in what nasa leaders describe as a near-perfect mission. this is the first of two unmanned test flights for orion with a manned version in as soon as 2021. orion sent back striking images and successful test flight was celebrated as giving a much-needed boost to a space agency than has in recent years, had to grapple with tighter budgets and questions about its long term mission. while this was a banner day for nasa, critics say its deeply flawed and that the technology bei...

When the air pressurized air in the plane gushes out into explosive force. those inside the plane need to get to an oxygen mask immediately or they suffer badly from asphyxia. on the two test flights. on one of the test flights, maximum altitude, 43,000 feet and the pilot just got it down, and even then, four of the test crew had to be taken to hospital to be treated for in diving terms called the bends, because they didnt get to their oxygen masks in time. now, its very fortunate that that happ...