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After Blue Origin's New Shepard flight, the question arose: what makes one an 'astronaut?'
After Blue Origin's latest New Shepard launch that featured an all-women celebrity crew, many are wondering, are they now ...
Gayle King shares how she conquered her fears and prepared for her spaceflight: "I can take on anything"
"CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King, who before her spaceflight admitted that she's a nervous flyer, said she has a new ...
Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles
No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...
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Astronaut's new NASA portrait is a blast from the past: Space photo of the day
NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits.
11 minutes with a window view of Earth: What to know about Blue Origin spaceflights
The spaceflights are ones billionaire Jeff Bezos's space technology company has been offering since 2021. This time, six ...
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Flying the Gusmobile
"Since we had to fly the beast, we want one that will do the best possible job," he wrote in Signal magazine before his Gemini flight. Grissom, who died with astronauts Edward White and Roger ...
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'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)
When you buy through links on our articles ... during the Crew Test Flight mission in June 2024. | Credit: NASA NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they'd ride on Boeing's ...