Europe's Ariane 6 rocket successfully launches for first time
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The Ariane 6 rocket blasts off from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, July 9, 2024. Engineers and managers monitor the parameters of the Ariane 6 launch in The Jupiter Room at The Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, July 9, 2024.
Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully blasted off for the first time on Tuesday, releasing satellites into orbit and restoring the continent's independent access to space.
The Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-26 space ship blasts off in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sept. 11, 2024. (Ivan Timoshenko, Roscosmos space corporation, via AP) Expedition 72 crew members include NASA astronaut Don Pettit, left, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, right, pose on Sept. 10, 2024, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
Musalia Piti, a herder, looks after his camels in Lekiji Village, Laikipia county, Kenya, on July 26, 2024. His family lost 50 cattle during a drought and decided to invest in camels. Lesian Ole Sempere, a Samburu elder, poses for a photograph outside his house in Lekiji Village, Laikipia county, Kenya, on July 26, 2024.