the skies

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Its engines fire and it climbs into the skies over the Gulf of Mexico to cheers and screams in the SpaceX control room.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Hours earlier, a rocket being tested by Jeff Bezos’s space company dramatically exploded on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., lighting up the skies for miles around Florida’s Space Coast late Thursday.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

And on the theme of "pursuit of new horizons," there are artifacts from two pathfinding women who took to the skies.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Gerald Eddie Brown soared the skies for more than three decades, flying jet fighters for the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Day after day the skies quilted over and the houses of Phippsburg shivered and croodled together and the rain spilled down onto leaves that hung brown and heavy with the wet.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt