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NASA selects second private astronaut mission to Space Station
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
Ax-2 will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a mission of no more than 14 days docked to the space station. NASA and Axiom will negotiate in...
Bezos' Blue Origin completes third crewed space flight
Dec 11, 2021 (AFP)
The stubby white spacecraft with a round tip blasted off into clear blue skies over West Texas for a roughly 11-minute trip to just beyond the internationally r...
Daughter of first American astronaut launches on Blue Origin flight
Dec 11, 2021 (AFP)
The stubby white spacecraft with a round tip blasted off into clear blue skies over West Texas for a roughly 11 minute trip to just beyond the internationally-r...
Daughter of first American astronaut to launch on Blue Origin flight
Dec 11, 2021 (AFP)
The spaceflight will last roughly 11 minutes, launching from the company's base in Texas and soaring to just beyond the internationally-recognized boundary of s...
New German government plans 60-bn-euro 'future' fund
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
The money will be taken from funds approved to help the government tackle the coronavirus pandemic but which "have not been used", said Lindner in his first maj...
Space Habitat Market size to grow by USD 94.92 Bn
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
By technology, the market generated maximum revenue in the inflatable segment in 2020. The segment is driven by the lower risk posed by inflatable space habitat...
Blue Origin plans to launch largest crew yet Saturday
Dec 10, 2021 (UPI)
Blue Origin plans liftoff of the New Shepard rocket on its NS-19 mission at 8:45 a.m. CST from its Corn Ranch spaceport 160 miles east of El Paso. Launch person...
Father's foundry job inspires Dr. Sharon Cobb to pursue NASA career path
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
During a family employee event, Cobb saw molten steel being poured into molds to form large ingots, large metal blocks that would later be made into usable stru...
Soyuz docks at ISS with three onboard
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier on Wednesday. They docked with...
Russian rocket blasts off carrying Japanese billionaire to the ISS
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his production assistant Yozo Hirano blasted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0738 GMT, ...
Japanese billionaire arrives at ISS
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier on Wednesday. They docked with...
NASA's latest astronaut trainees are already dreaming of the Moon
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
With America's sights now set on returning to the Moon -- this time establishing long-term habitats -- Birch is dreaming big: "If I could assist the mission in ...
Successful and diverse harvest in darkness and eternal ice
Dec 08, 2021 (SPX)
She has experienced extreme cold and nine weeks of polar nights. During her time there, she has cultivated numerous vegetables and herbs without soil and using ...
Experiments riding 24th SpaceX Cargo Mission to USS included bioprinting, crystallization, laundry studies
Dec 08, 2021 (SPX)
Learn more about these scientific experiments riding aboard the Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting lab: Bioprinting bandages Bioprinting, a subcategory of 3D pri...
Russia's cosmos town, an isolated relic of Soviet glory
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
"Our town has lived through a lot: Perestroika, the fall of the Soviet Union, electricity shortages. We've been through it all," says the 67-year-old former chi...
Blue Origin flight with Alan Shephard daughter delayed by weather
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
The flight was originally scheduled for Thursday but because of winds forecast for both that day and Friday it will now aim to lift off on Saturday at 8:45 am (...
Yusaku Maezawa: irreverent billionaire fascinated by space
Dec 06, 2021 (AFP)
The 46-year-old tycoon is the founder of Japan's largest online fashion mall and is the country's 30th-richest person, according to business magazine Forbes. Bu...
Japanese duo prepare for first tourist flight to space station since 2009
Dec 06, 2021 (UPI)
Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who made his fortune in the fashion industry, booked seats for himself and his production assistant, Yozo Hirano, aboard a Russian S...
Leveraging AI to accelerate development of scientific models
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
The goal of the ASKE project was to develop AI technologies capable of automating some of the manual processes of scientific knowledge discovery, curation, and ...
Russia to send Japanese tycoon to ISS in return to space tourism
Dec 06, 2021 (AFP)
One of Japan's richest men, Maezawa, 46, will blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan accompanied by his assistant Yozo Hirano. On Sunday morning, ...
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