Jeff Bezos will be on board Blue Origin's first crewed space flight
7 June 2021
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Blue Origin, will fly to the edge of space on his company's first crewed flight on 20 July, as will his brother
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SpaceX ready to take humans to the ISS after a successful dummy run
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10 year challenge: How science and the world have changed
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The last 10 years have seen amazing advances in science and technology – and stark damage to the world we live in. Like a lot of people on social media we thought we'd take a look back at the last ten years in science and New Scientist
