'Best day ever': billionaire Bezos has successful first space jaunt
VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, soared about 66.5 miles (107 km) above the Texas desert aboard his company [...]
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Jeff Bezos, world's richest man, boards spacecraft in Texas
VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, and three crewmates boarded his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle on [...]
Chinese spacecraft returns to Earth after inaugural flight
FILE PHOTO: A model of the Long March-5 Y5 rocket from China’s lunar exploration program Chang’e-5 Mission is displayed at an exhibition inside [...]
Teenager to fly with Bezos in inaugural space tourism flight
FILE PHOTO: An interior view of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule mockup at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States [...]
FACTBOX-Richard Branson: daredevil billionaire entrepreneur set to fly to space
July 11 (Reuters) – Flamboyant British entrepreneur Richard Branson is set to fly to space on a Sunday test flight by his Virgin [...]
Factbox-Bezos, Branson and Musk: Who is winning the space tourism race?
(Reuters) – Three billionaire entrepreneurs – Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson – are each vying to usher in a new era [...]
China's clout grows in near-Earth space with historic mission
JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) -Three Chinese astronauts on Thursday flew to an unfinished space station in China’s first crewed mission since 2016, expanding the [...]
SpaceX Starship SN11 rocket fails to land safely after test launch in Texas -SpaceX
Slideshow ( 4 images )(Reuters) -An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca [...]
NASA-SpaceX launch of next International Space Station crew pushed to April 22
FILE PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on the first operational NASA [...]
'Something we've never seen' – Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the picture-perfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance, including a [...]