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Star Trek: William Shatner Will Fly to Space From West Texas
Captain Kirk is rocketing into space aboard a Blue Origin rocket. “Star Trek” actor William Shatner plans to blast off from West Texas next week.
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Blue Origin Launches Artwork, Moon-Landing Test into Space
Blue Origin launched artwork painted on a capsule and a moon-landing navigation experiment into space Thursday, a month after sending founder Jeff Bezos on the company’s first passenger flight.
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18-Year-Old Joining Blue Origin's 1st Passenger Spaceflight
An 18-year-old is about to become the youngest person in space, rocketing away with an aviation pioneer who will become the oldest at age 82.
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Jeff Bezos Picks North Texas Female Aerospace Pioneer to Launch With Him
Jeff Bezos has chosen an 82-year-old North Texas pilot, denied astronaut wings decades ago, to rocket into space with him.
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Takes Flight, 1st for Another Planet
NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
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1st Private Space Crew Paying $55M Each to Fly to Station
The first private space station crew was introduced Tuesday: Three men who are each paying $55 million to fly on a SpaceX rocket.
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Cheers! French Wine, Vines Headed Home After Year in Space
The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.
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Astronaut Says Losing Mirror on Spacewalk was ‘Real Bummer'
The commander of the International Space Station said Monday that losing a mirror during last week’s otherwise successful spacewalk was “a real bummer.”
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‘Houston, We've Had a Problem': Remembering Apollo 13 at 50
Apollo 13′s astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago. Even when their oxygen tank ruptured two days later — on April 13.
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Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden Dies at 88
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88. Worden died in his sleep at a rehab center in Houston following treatment for an infection, said friend and colleague Tom Kallman. “Al was an American hero whose achievements in space and on Earth…
