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Boeing Starliner with Sunita Williams onboard could wait months in space before return as NASA mulls extending mission duration
Officials have repeatedly hinted that the Starliner, which faced issues with helium leaks and thrus…
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No planned date to return to Earth for two NASA astronauts due to issues with Boeing Starliner spacecraft
The two NASA astronauts were scheduled to return on June 14. However, the pair has no set date to r…
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Stranded in space: Sunita Williams shares her experience LIVE from the International Space Station
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore addressed Earth live from the ISS. They were launched …
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NASA says astronauts from Boeing's Starliner could be in space for a couple more weeks even though their test flight was only supposed to last 8 days
NASA and Boeing say they're being cautious to make sure astronauts testing the new Starliner spacec…
Jack Newsham
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A developer is planning a commercial spaceport near Las Vegas that includes a pilot school and STEM academy
Real estate developer Rob Lauer is planning a commercial spaceport near Las Vegas that includes a h…
Lauren Edmonds
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'Pushpak' aces test: ISRO achieves yet another success in Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) landing experiment
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday achieved another success in the Reusable La…
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NASA says it can ask SpaceX to bring Boeing astronauts home if needed, as they reach 51 days on the space station
Two NASA astronauts have been stuck on the space station for 51 days while Boeing troubleshoots its…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
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Boeing says its space mission is 'going well' despite its Starliner leaving 2 astronauts stuck on the ISS
Boeing is doing damage control after delaying Starliner's return from the International Space Stati…
Mikhaila Friel
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Remember Sunita Williams, Indian-origin astronaut who made history by going to space twice? She is all set to fly to space for the third time!
Wiliams will be tasked with conducting a series of tests to ensure the Starliner meets NASA's strin…
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A NASA astronaut stuck indefinitely in space due to Boeing's Starliner delays has a 'good feeling' she'll get home safe, but for now she's just floating around
"I have a real good feeling in my heart that the spacecraft will bring us home," NASA astronaut Sun…
Aditi Bharade
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Virgin Galactic surges 47% as Richard Branson's space tourism company preps first commercial flight
After years of delays, Virgin Galactic said the first flight will take place on June 27, with anoth…
Max Adams
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Bette Nash, who held the Guinness World Record for the longest-serving flight attendant, dies at 88
Nash got her first job as a flight attendant with Eastern Airlines in 1957, when Dwight D. Eisenhow…
Cameron Manley
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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Sunita Williams flies to ISS on NASA's Boeing Starliner tonight; 3rd time in space for Indian-origin astronaut
"I'm very proud of the teams who have worked really hard the last two and a half weeks to prepare f…
ANI
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Luxury space-tourism company shows off its capsule designed to float to the edge of space with a massive balloon
Space Perspective's new pressurized Neptune capsule is designed to take passengers on a six-hour tr…
Camilo Fonseca
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Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is under fire for offering $450,000 commercial space flights just a week after the Titan submersible tragedy
"Someone is seriously trying to decrease that 1% population," a social-media user commented about t…
Amanda Goh
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is about to fly people to space for the first time in 2 years. Here's why it took so long.
Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin hasn't launched a crew in nearly 2 years and that delay may …
Jessica Orwig
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Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin that launch in the US
His budget proposal suggests rewriting the aviation excise tax structure so space companies pay the…
Marianne Guenot
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Watch Boeing launch its Starliner spaceship for NASA on a do-over flight to the International Space Station
NASA needs Boeing's Starliner spaceship to transport astronauts, but first the company has to fly i…