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Virgin Galactic space plane makes its first commercial flight

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has made its first commercial flight to the edge of space, joining a small club of companies offering private space flights

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SpaceX, Blue Origin and ULA plan to launch huge new rockets in 2023

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US company Axiom Space launched on 8 April 2022 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Watch: Axiom and SpaceX launch first all-private crew to ISS

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James Leidner spent three nights in a high-tech sleeping bag that unloads pressure in the brain by suctioning fluids into the lower body. NASA hopes the sack can be used by astronauts in space to alleviate the vision problems they commonly endure during longer missions.

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High-tech space sleeping bag could stop vision problems in astronauts

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Richard Branson reaches the edge of space on Virgin Galactic flight

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How to call the International Space Station

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How to call the International Space Station

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Apollo 11 looks like yesterday in new TV show using restored footage

Apollo 11 looks like yesterday in new TV show using restored footage

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Space Shuttle Columbia blasts off on the first space shuttle mission STS-1

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NASA picks Maxar to build the first piece of its lunar space station

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NASA picks Maxar to build the first piece of its lunar space station

NASA chose Maxar Technologies to build the power and propulsion element of the Gateway lunar space station, which will be an outpost for going to the moon and Mars

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What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?

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The US wants to send astronauts to the moon’s south pole in 2024

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Anu Ojha: Will humans make it to Mars?

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The Moon exhibition in Denmark re-enchants the satellite for our times

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