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Meet NASA's first female head of human spaceflight, who oversaw SpaceX's astronaut launch and will lead the US return to the moon
NASA has appointed Kathy Lueders to spearhead its upcoming moon missions and lead a new era in huma…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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NASA astronaut Megan McArthur's warning to space tourists: Spaceflight is uncomfortable and risky. It takes grit.
Astronauts compare spaceflight to a camping trip for a reason. You have to give up showers, flush t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Mark Zuckerberg 'liked' a meme mocking Jeff Bezos for saying that Amazon workers sent him to space
Bezos made headlines following his brief spaceflight for thanking Amazon employees and customers, s…
Avery Hartmans
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William Shatner hits back after George Takei called him a 'guinea pig' and 'unfit' following Blue Origin spaceflight
William Shatner took to Twitter on Friday to respond to George Takei's comments about him and the B…
Lauren Edmonds
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ISRO’s new company just made its first sale to an American firm to come aboard a rocket that doesn’t exist yet
As compared the PSLV rocket, which can carry 1,100 - 1,600 kilograms, the SSLV can only ac…
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NASA's human spaceflight chief has resigned a week before SpaceX is supposed to launch its first astronauts for the agency
Doug Loverro left after just six months on the job as NASA's associate administrator for crewed fli…
Dave Mosher
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Virgin Galactic skyrockets 30% after announcing it will begin selling tickets for flights to space
Virgin Galactic stock surged after the company announced it will sell spaceflight tickets to the ge…
Phil Rosen
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has 'thousands of people in the auction process' for a ticket to space and needs to build more rockets to meet the demand, CEO says
Bob Smith also said Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is building more rockets and can "easily double" its cr…
Sarah Jackson
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NASA finally certified SpaceX to fly astronauts on its Crew Dragon spaceship, just days before its next launch
SpaceX is officially certified to launch people into space on a Falcon 9 rocket and fly them in the…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Why SpaceX's astronaut mission for NASA is such a big deal for Elon Musk's rocket company and the US as a whole
If SpaceX successfully returns NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth, it will open a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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During Richard Branson's spaceflight, Virgin Galactic's rocket plane blared a red warning light and flew out of its clearance zone
The New Yorker reported that the spaceship's short venture out of bounds triggered an investigation…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Richard Branson brought Stephen Colbert's headshot to space with him
Stephen Colbert hosted Virgin Galactic's livestream of its first fully crewed spaceflight on Sunday…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is seeking proposals for a further two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station
The US space agency wants to see more commercial spaceflights for private astronauts in an attempt …
Zahra Tayeb
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Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company is building a monster engine that'll launch the business to new heights
"The BE-4 engine will begin full-engine development testing next year, with qualification testing c…
Jessica Orwig
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Florida passes bill to prevent billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos being sued if their mega-rockets kill or injure people
The bill could protect SpaceX and other space companies from civil lawsuits if passengers or crew m…
Marianne Guenot
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Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson says 'honestly, there isn't' any competition between him and Jeff Bezos on upcoming spaceflights
Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson said during a "Today" show interview that he's not competing with…
Sarah Jackson
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RESILIENCE SOARS: SpaceX just launched 4 astronauts into orbit for NASA, kicking off the longest spaceflight in US history
SpaceX catapulted the four Crew-1 mission astronauts inside a Crew Dragon spaceship. They're headed…