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Summary: A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, raced into the record books, flying at a world-record speed nearly 10 times faster than sound, NASA confirmed. The pilotless scramjet screeched across the Pacific Ocean with NASA scientists nervously monitoring its second test flight. It was the second record to be claimed in eight months

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