NASA intends to keep operating the International Space Station until the end of 2030, after which the ISS would be crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo, according to newly published plans outlining its future.
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The mystery bidder who put up a whopping $28 million for an 11-minute joy ride to the edge of space alongside Jeff Bezos will not make the trip, Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin announced Thursday.
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UK businessman Sir Richard Branson is about to realise a lifetime's ambition by flying to the edge of space.
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Sir Richard Branson has named the date he'll fly to the edge of space. It will be 11 July, or very soon after.
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Even in space, afternoon naps are all in a day's work for the astronauts working on China's new space station.
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NASA has released an image detailing the never-before-seen "violent energy" at the center of our galaxy, created after two decades of research.
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Michael Collins, the NASA astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, has died at age 90 after battling cancer.
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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Wednesday launched a search for eight people to join him as the first private passengers on a trip around the moon with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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The American space agency is expected to release new photos from its Perseverance rover shortly.
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Astronomers gear up to watch solar system’s two largest planets side by side in night sky.
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US Air Force officer and test pilot Chuck Yeager, known as "the fastest man alive," has died at the age of 97.
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Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.
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Japan has announced plans to build one of the world's most sophisticated stealth jet fighters, likely a twin-engine aircraft designed to take over the country's critical air defense role sometime in the next decade.
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Last fall, NASA unveiled the new suits that Artemis astronauts will wear when they take humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface for the first time since way back in 1972. The look of the A7LB pressure suit variants that accompanied those earlier astronauts to the Moon, and later to Skylab, has since gone on to signify for many the definitive, iconic symbol of humanity’s most ambitiously-realized space dreams.
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NASA astronauts launched from US soil for the first time in nine years. And they did it on a private vehicle, for the first time in history.
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The launch of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is planned to move forward over the weekend despite the Covid-19 pandemic, which has shuttered both private and government operations across the US. NASA says it must carry on with the mission in order to keep the International Space Station, a giant orbiting laboratory, fully staffed with US astronauts.
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