This happened in my old neck of the woods. Back when I was in the Navy in 1991, the Charleston Air Force base had a plane take off and lost an engine that fell in a nearby neighborhood, but this takes the cake 
The U.S. Navy does keep tabs on the Thresher and the Scorpion. Dr. Robert Ballard of Titanic rediscovery fame can (now) attest to that. Though I have to wonder about the K-129 of Project Azorian; the CIA has to have known the location of the remains that fell back to the seabed for decades now — did the Navy ever go back?
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Update: the lost has been found.
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Welp, I guess AI didn’t take control of it and use it for its own purpose
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Welp, can’t have drugs on Earth or in space…
What’s this universe coming to?? 
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Interesting new issue for the FAA. It’s not a crewed vehicle or a space agency sample-return probe built like a tank with various redundancies, but something cheaper intended for reuse that can afford to be lost occasionally — as long as it still doesn’t hit anyone or anything on the way down.
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but the company responded with a two-word email that ominously read, “no comment.”
I don’t see what’s so ominous about no comment.
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Sounds like the company didn’t consider the possibility of the FAA or Air Force denying reentry (which, admittedly, is the first time I’ve heard of this happening for non-weather related reasons), and is scrambling to come up with a Plan B.
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Ominous is probably not the best word, but “no comment” is never a good look. I assume the article author erred in saying the company was denied permission for re-entry to Earth by the U.S. agencies; I’m pretty sure those agencies have authority only over U.S. airspace, not the entire planet.
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And since it’s a U.S. company that wanted to land the capsule in Utah at a USAF test range, they’re kind of stuck at the moment.
Edit: Looks like the company has no one to blame but itself.
“Varda Space Industries launched its vehicle into space without a reentry license,” an FAA spokesperson told Ars (Technica) on Wednesday. "The FAA denied the Varda reentry license application on September 6 because the company did not demonstrate compliance with the regulatory requirements.”
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Something tells me Bob would not approve.
…and they all lived happily ever after. Now go to sleep.
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who’s the good boi!!
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My dogs would be like, “we’ll protect y- SQUIRREL!”
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Funny, but I’m dubious that it’s real, not only because that’s from the Daily Mail.
It’s not hard to fake a sign.
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True, and I can’t find any evidence showing if it’s real or not…
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