Virgin Galactic’s first commercial space flight safely lands | Space News
Passengers and crew on VSS Unity rocket plane go for 75-minute suborbital ride to edge of space in landmark flight.
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Final Virgin Galactic test flight paves way for paying customers | Space News
Company celebrates as it completes what is likely the final test before commercial space tourism operations begin. Virgin Galactic has
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SpaceX sends Saudi astronauts, including first Arab woman, to ISS | Space News
Sponsored by Saudi Arabia, Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher, is the first Arab woman to go to space. A
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NASA announces that Bezos’s Blue Origin will build moon lander | Space News
The contract is a milestone for Bezos’s space company after it lost a previous lunar-landing bid to competitor SpaceX. The
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Environmentalists sue US regulator over impact of SpaceX launches | Space News
SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded over the Gulf of Mexico on April 20 and debris was scattered from the launch pad.
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South Korea president opens US tour with NASA space centre visit | Space News
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s six-day visit marks the 70th anniversary of the US-South Korean alliance, forged in 1953. South Korean
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Japanese company loses contact with moon lander in likely crash | Space News
Flight controllers lose contact with spacecraft moments before the planned touchdown. A Japanese company has lost contact with its spacecraft
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China to explore 3D printing on moon to build habitats | Space News
China wants to start building a lunar base using soil from the moon in five years. China will explore using
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China breaks silence over status of Mars rover Zhurong | Space News
Zhurong should have woken from planned hibernation in December but a dust build-up has likely affected power generation. China’s Mars
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SpaceX successfully launches Starship, it explodes before orbit | Space News
The Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and is designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars or
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