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NASA Launches Entrepreneurs Challenge to identify innovative ideas
Jul 14, 2021 (SPX)
The agency's Science Mission Directorate is seeking novel ideas that focus on priority areas for the commercial sector. The Entrepreneurs Challenge aligns with ...
Chinese harvests first batch of 'space rice'
Jul 14, 2021 (UPI)
About 40 grams of seeds made the trip to the moon last November. Some seeds can mutate and produce higher yields when planted on Earth after being exposed to co...
NASA solar sail asteroid mission readies for launch on Artemis I
Jul 14, 2021 (SPX)
NEA Scout, a small spacecraft roughly the size of a large shoebox, has been packaged into a dispenser and attached to the adapter ring that connects the SLS roc...
NASA moves ahead with plan to support private space stations
Jul 12, 2021 (UPI)
The space agency on Monday released a final request for proposals for new space stations. Those proposals are due Aug. 26. NASA intends to retire the 20-year-ol...
At 59, Kennedy Diversifies, Flourishes as Multi-User Spaceport
Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)
The launch of NASA's Artemis I mission - slated to occur later this year - will be the most visible manifestation of the agency's return to the Moon to date, pr...
Virgin Galactic spaceship carrying Branson touches down
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
"Congratulations to all our wonderful team at Virgin Galactic for 17 years of hard hard work to get us this far," he said during a live feed as the VSS Unity sp...
British billionaire Branson takes off for space
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
A massive carrier plane made a horizontal take-off from Spaceport, New Mexico at around 8:40 am Mountain Time (1440 GMT) and will ascend for around an hour to a...
17 years after founding Virgin Galactic, Branson bound for space
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
On Sunday, billionaire Richard Branson will take off from a base in New Mexico aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel bound for the edge of space. The Briton is hoping...
'Experience of a lifetime': Billionaire Branson achieves space dream
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
"Congratulations to all our wonderful team at Virgin Galactic for 17 years of hard, hard work to get us this far," he said during a live feed as the VSS Unity s...
Why China is hobbling its tech sector
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
The travails of ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing this week carried a cautionary tale for digital big hitters: what goes up, can come down... and fast. Days after...
Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin face off in space tourism market
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
Virgin Galactic -- founded by flamboyant British billionaire Richard Branson -- is planning for a July 11 space flight. Blue Origin -- started by Jeff Bezos of ...
Final frontier: Billionaires Branson and Bezos bound for space
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos launched Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin in the early 2000s, and now both men stand on the verge of lift-off themselves, mere day...
British billionaire Richard Branson plans to soar into space Sunday
Jul 09, 2021 (UPI)
The flight of Branson's Virgin Galactic VSS Unity spaceship is scheduled to lift off sometime after 9 a.m. EDT from New Mexico's private Spaceport America, abou...
What does it take to do a spacewalk
Jul 07, 2021 (SPX)
EVA capabilities blossomed during the era of NASA's space shuttle. Astronauts rode robotic arms, floated tetherless through the void using jetpacks to steer, co...
Russia races Tom Cruise and Musk for first movie in space
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
This time though the stakes are somewhat glitzier. On October 5, one of Russia's most celebrated actresses, 36-year-old Yulia Peresild is blasting off to the In...
Sea to stars: first Arab woman astronaut in training
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
The 28-year-old mechanical engineer from Sharjah -- one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE -- has dreamt about space since she was a girl, learning abou...
Equipment for shooting 1st movie in space delivered to ISS by Russia
Jul 05, 2021 (Sputnik)
The space freighter was launched by the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and docked to the ISS early on Friday....
Billionaire blast off: Richard Branson plans space trip ahead of rival Bezos
Jul 02, 2021 (AFP)
With both tycoons having created space tourism companies and positioned themselves as leaders in the suborbital-flights-for-the-wealthy sector, the move signale...
Rogue Space and Orbital Assembly want to lease 2 Laura Orbot spacecraft
Jul 02, 2021 (SPX)
As part of the agreement, Rogue Space and Orbital Assembly will collaboratively formulate a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and develop opportunities ...
Seasoned US pilot Wally Funk to fulfill space dream 60 years on
Jul 02, 2021 (AFP)
On Thursday, Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos invited her to join him on his spaceflight company Blue Origin's July 20 launch. The flight will not just m...
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