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Q1 2024 Vir Biotechnology Inc Earnings Call
Q1 2024 Vir Biotechnology Inc Earnings Call
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Boeing sending first astronaut crew to space after years of delay
Boeing is poised to send the first Starliner space capsule with a crew of humans into orbit next week, giving it a long-delayed chance to score a badly needed win as it struggles to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX. The CST-100 Starliner test mission, a years-delayed milestone after more than $1 billion in cost overruns, will ferry two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in a final demonstration before the spacecraft can be approved to fly routine space trips under the space agency's commercial crew program. NASA in recent years has backed a new generation of privately built spacecraft that can ferry its astronauts and other customers to the ISS and, under its more ambitious Artemis program, to the moon and eventually Mars.
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At Berkshire Hathaway meeting, Warren Buffett to field questions on growth, dividend and succession
Warren Buffett will command center stage at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting on Saturday, but someone who won't be there -- his influential sidekick Charlie Munger -- will loom large. The meeting is Buffett's 60th since he took over Berkshire in 1965 and the first since the death of his longtime friend, business partner and foil Munger at age 99 in November. Buffett, 93, whose legendary investment acumen inspired the nickname Oracle of Omaha, has largely stopped appearing publicly to discuss the company.
