First Flight
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British lawyers could be sent to Rwandan courts as part of asylum plans
... The First Flight was scheduled to go in June 2022 but was cancelled because of legal challenges...
SpaceX: Elon Musk's Starship rocket to make second flight
... The mantra Elon Musk follows is “test early, break it, and learn”, and engineers at his SpaceX company certainly had a lot of lessons to learn after the First Flight test in April...
Rishi Sunak says Rwanda merry-go-round must end
... The First Flight was scheduled to go in June 2022 but was cancelled after an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)...
UK to charter flights for Afghan refugees stuck in Pakistan
... The UK government has not said how many people will be onboard the First Flight or how many are expected to be relocated before 1 November deadline...
Rwanda can be trusted, Supreme Court told
... In June 2022, the European Court of Human Rights blocked the departure of the First Flight, saying that British judges needed time to fully consider whether the plan was legal...
Virgin Galactic: First space tourism mission after decades of promises
...By Thomas MackintoshBBC NewsVirgin Galactic has taken a former Olympian, a University of Aberdeen student and her mother to the edge of space on its First Flight for tourists...
2001: A Space Odyssey library book returned 53 years late
... Notable events in the year the book was taken out include The Beatles final public performance, the Concorde supersonic airliner s First Flight and US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin becoming the first people to walk on the Moon...
Home Office pauses removal of Kabul embassy Gurkhas
... They were held in immigration removal centres close to Gatwick and Heathrow airports, with the First Flight due to leave on Thursday...
