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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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ISRO successfully conducts propulsion system tests for its first human spaceflight mission
ISRO has successfully carried out two more tests as part of plans to further validate and refine th…
PTI
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While Boeing's passenger planes glitch, NASA is entrusting the company's spaceship with 2 astronauts' lives
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft isn't totally safe from the cost-cutting, KPI-focused company culture…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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Human activities are changing Earth's spin so much that it might affect how we keep time
Human-driven climate change is causing Earth's poles to lose so much ice it's changing the planet's…
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have huge plans in space, but there are no laws or regul…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk, eat your heart out: A new spaceflight startup wants to use a wild new technology to cut the time it takes to fly to Mars in half
UK-based aerospace company Pulsar Fusion is hoping to have a new rocket by the end of the decade th…
Cork Gaines
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SpaceX is poised to make rocket launches 10 times cheaper with Starship, experts say
SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket reached a major milestone on Thursday, pushing Elon Musk's ambition t…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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17 crucial upgrades helped SpaceX finally get Starship to space without exploding
SpaceX finally flew its Starship mega-rocket to space for the first time, but it couldn't have done…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Video of SpaceX's Starship reentry shows the ultra-hot plasma plummet back to Earth like never before
Starship captured jaw-dropping video footage as it reentered Earth's atmosphere and plummeted towar…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Starship's 3rd-launch success: Rocket finally soared to space without blowing up, but SpaceX lost it on reentry
SpaceX's Starship rocket successfully reached space on its third launch attempt, but it lost commun…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Mariann…
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SpaceX is attempting its 3rd Starship launch today. Watch live to see if the rocket explodes again or finally reaches orbit.
SpaceX is set to launch its Starship rocket for a third time on Thursday. Watch live to see whether…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A dead Russian spacecraft almost collided with a NASA satellite. The crash could have sent 7,500 bits of debris rocketing around Earth.
A dead Russian spacecraft almost crashed into a NASA satellite. The collision would have sent debr…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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Space photos from 5 recent moon-landing missions show how tiny engineering errors can cause big problems, like crashing or landing sideways
Moon landings are so complex that even the tiniest mistakes have caused missions to crash or burn. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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-…
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NASA opens rare job opportunity to live in a Mars simulation for a year
Apply to live in NASA's Mars simulation for one year, where a four-person crew grows crops, practic…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch the video of Intuitive Machines and NASA landing on the moon and hitting a snag, with $118 million on the line
Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lander touched down on the moon on Thursday. NASA's livestream of miss…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch the sun show off all year with a total eclipse, strong solar storms, and NASA almost landing on the solar surface
A Helio Year: With a total solar eclipse across the US, a NASA spacecraft "landing" on the sun, and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jeff Bezos says going on his first spaceflight felt like attending his own memorial service
"The people on the ground were very nervous for us," Bezos told podcaster Lex Fridman.
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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From Elon Musk's giant Starship rocket to India's spectacular moon landing, 2023 was an epic year in space
It was a busy year for the space industry, filled with successful launches, ambitious missions, and…