SpaceX aimed to blast a billionaire into orbit Wednesday night with his two contest winners and a health care worker who survived childhood cancer.
Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2021
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Houston, we have a problem! Love and sex need to happen in space if we hope to travel long distances and become an interplanetary species, but space organizations are not ready.
Social Sciences
Sep 13, 2021
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"Suborbital" is a term you'll be hearing a lot as Sir Richard Branson flies aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity winged spaceship and Jeff Bezos flies aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle to touch the boundary of space ...
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2021
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When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity's first steps out of Africa. Such a birth would mark the beginning of a multi–planet civilization for the human species.
Space Exploration
May 21, 2021
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For the first time, NASA is putting its trust in a recycled SpaceX rocket and capsule for a crew.
Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2021
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Several hundred people have already booked their tickets and begun training for a spectacular voyage: a few minutes, or perhaps days, in the weightlessness of space.
Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2021
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It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000-euro bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2021
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Leo pulls on a shiny, silver suit and places the helmet gingerly over his head before marching with the other budding astronauts towards their spaceship.
Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2021
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NASA may soon chalk up another one-year space mission thanks to an out-of-this-world Russian movie-making deal.
Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2021
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After 20 years of continuous habitation, the International Space Station has entered its "Golden Age" and is abuzz with activity—thanks in large part to the return of US rocket launches via commercial partner SpaceX.
Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2021
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