On Nov. 2, 2020, the International Space Station celebrated its 20th anniversary of continuous human occupation. With astronauts and cosmonauts from around the world working together, the ISS has demonstrated humankind's ...
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Astronauts completed their second spacewalk in under a week Wednesday to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station.
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Russia's Energia space corporation said Thursday it will take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023, under the terms of a new contract with a US partner.
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Jun 25, 2020
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For the new space race, astronauts and space tourists will want to eat a little better than the corn beef sandwiches, applesauce and high-calorie cubes of protein, fat and sugar consumed by NASA scientists in the 1960s.
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Mar 6, 2020
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SpaceX on Thursday announced a partnership to send three tourists to the International Space Station (ISS), the first private trip in more than a decade.
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Mar 6, 2020
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SpaceX announced a new partnership Tuesday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen before them, in a mission that could take place by 2022 and easily cost more than $100 million.
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Feb 18, 2020
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Virgin Galactic says it has been contracted by the Italian air force for a suborbital research flight aboard its winged rocket ship.
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Oct 2, 2019
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With an eye to launching the first tourists to space by year's end, Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, blasted off the 10th test flight of its New Shepard rocket on Wednesday.
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Jan 23, 2019
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SpaceX is among a handful of companies racing to propel tourists into space. Here are the top projects in the works, and what they involve.
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Sep 14, 2018
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The two companies leading the pack in the pursuit of space tourism say they are just months away from their first out-of-this-world passenger flights—though neither has set a firm date.
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