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Wally Funk, the oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87

Wally Funk, the oldest woman to go into space, died at 87 years old. NBC News' Tom Costello looks back at Funk's Blue Origin ...
The New York Times

The New Space Race

The new head of NASA predicts a manned mission to Mars in 10 years. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast.
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NASA clears the iPhone to go to space

Apple's iPhone may be one of the most popular phones on Earth, but it's about to start conquering space as well. According to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, NASA astronauts are now cleared to take ...

Do you want to be an astronaut? Career routes that can take you to space

In 2024, I flew on a microgravity, or zero G, parabolic flight with the European Space Agency (ESA). The aeroplane flew big arcs up and down in the sky. At the top of the arc I experienced 22 seconds ...
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Space Race Explodes Faster Than Expected: ‘We're Going to Look Back on This Era as Historic’

NASA developing lunar landers with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin shows how quickly space exploration has become dependent on just a couple of billionaires. As the U.S. space ...
Ars Technica

Here’s why Blue Origin just ended its suborbital space tourism program

Blue Origin has “paused” its New Shepard program for the next two years, a move that likely signals a permanent end to the suborbital space tourism initiative. The small rocket and capsule have been ...