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Falcon Heavy launch

Seeing SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket take off for the first time

6 February 2018

SpaceX test launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful since the Saturn V rocket. Leah Crane went to Cape Canaveral to see it lift off up close
I watched the eclipse with scientists hunting the sun’s secrets

I watched the eclipse with scientists hunting the sun’s secrets

22 August 2017

Leah Crane joined solar researchers to watch yesterday’s eclipse, a rare chance to look at a scorching ring of space around the sun that we can almost never see

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