Rocket Report: Branson sells Virgin Galactic shares, LEGO’s deep-space rocket

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Welcome to Edition 2.44 of the Rocket Report! There's so much to get to in this week's report, but we'd like to call special attention to a busy launch weekend with the potential for two launches within 24 hours from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This would set a record for the cape and it would be cool to see an Atlas V and Falcon 9 take off in such quick succession.

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Branson to sell some of his Virgin Galactic shares. Sir Richard Branson, the founder and largest shareholder of suborbital spaceflight company Virgin Galactic, will sell more than a fifth of Virgin Group's majority stake in the company to raise funds to aid its other companies affected by the pandemic, SpaceNews reports.

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