TOKYO -- Honda Motor has moved closer to its goal of suborbital space flight by 2029, after the Japanese car company successfully launched and landed its reusable small rocket.
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Honda's experimental rocket blasts off vertically into the sky in a critical test in Taiki, a town on the Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, on the evening on June 17. (Photo by Honda/Kyodo)
TOKYO -- Honda Motor has moved closer to its goal of suborbital space flight by 2029, after the Japanese car company successfully launched and landed its reusable small rocket.