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Brendan Byrne

Reporter · US

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Brendan Byrne

    New space station crew launches from Florida on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule (opens the original)

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    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Despite concerns about thunderstorms and gusty winds, SpaceX launched four people on NASA's Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9 rocket leaped off the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and soared northeast, over the Atlantic Ocean. It will take the capsule about eight hours to catch up with and dock to the space station. The four crew members will spend up to six months living and working aboard the outpost before return

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Brendan Byrne

    SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit for the first time (opens the original)

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    A rocket that's crucial to SpaceX and NASA reached orbit for the first time. It's the 170-foot-tall Starship. And it launched from Starbase in Texas on Monday, circled the Earth twice and then splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Byrne has more. BRENDAN BYRNE, BYLINE: On a picture-perfect early morning, 33 engines of Starship's Super Heavy booster roared to life. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Four, three, two, one. BYRNE: Two and a half minutes later, Starship separa

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Brendan Byrne

    SpaceX's Starship launches on first orbital mission from Texas (opens the original)

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    Updated September 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM CDT SpaceX launched its Starship spacecraft from the company's Starbase facility from Boca Chica Beach in Texas, on a critical test flight that sent the 171-foot-tall vehicle into orbit for the first time. At 7:48 a.m. CT, Starship's Super Heavy booster ignited its 33 rocket engines to send the spacecraft on its 14th flight. Two-and-a-half minutes after launch, Starship separated from the booster and continued into space. One of the six engines on Starship

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Brendan Byrne

    5 British suspects arrested, explosives found near U.S.-run air base. Iran denies role (opens the original)

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    Updated September 28, 2026 at 9:30 AM EDT FAIRFORD, England — Police were holding five men on Monday and examining suspected explosives found near a U.S.-operated air force base in England, as counterterror detectives investigated whether the arrests foiled an attempted attack linked to Iran. The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted near RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned base that has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East. Investigators hav

  5. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · By Brendan Byrne | NPR Published August 30, 2026 8:13 AM

    NASA giant telescope (opens the original)

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    Details: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is about the size of a tour bus, lifted off at 4:26 a.m. PT on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. The 18,000-pound spacecraft is now on a million-mile journey that will take it to its new home in space. What's next: Roman is on a kind of ghost hunt, searching for more evidence of dark matter — mysterious, invisible stuff whose gravitational influence appears to hold galaxies together and define the overarching structure of the cosmos.

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