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President-elect Donald Trump appears to be planning to attend a SpaceX “Starship” rocket launch on Tuesday, in the latest indication of founder Elon Musk ‘s influence in the Republican’s orbit.

Former senior intelligence official Luis Elizondo testified Wednesday at House Oversight Committee hearing that a “multi-decade secretive arms race” is playing out on the global state.

It never went into space, but a full-size original space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International’s ultimately successful bid to build NASA’s shuttles will travel along a Downey street Thursday.

A severe geomagnetic storm supercharged the northern lights Thursday evening, making the aurora borealis visible from parts of San Diego County for the second time this year.

The aurora borealis streaked across the night sky late Thursday. NBC 7’s Brooke Martell explains. 

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft carried two astronauts aboard its historic launch Wednesday from Cape Canaveral.