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Who gets to be called an astronaut? Private space travel has reignited debate over use of prestigious title
The recent all-women spaceflight carried out on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin vehicle has raised discussion of who gets to be ...
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How Do Space Programs Get Their Names? And More Questions From Our Readers
How do space programs get their names? Elizabeth Coen | Monterey, California ...
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These Big Names Are A Part Of The Blue Origin All-Women Space Crew
Former aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe and Noble Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen – both former NASA workers – will also ride ...
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Setting Sail in Outer Space
For the past two years, Saravanan led a group of students monitoring communications of the NASA Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (NASA ACS3) spacecraft, which launched into outer space in April ...
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Katy Perry and Gayle King did, but If you wanted to go to space, could you? What’s required
Blue Origin's latest star-studded mission blasted off on April 14 on the New Shepard commercial spacecraft, giving the crew the chance to explore outer space for 11 minutes. The all-female crew ...
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Flandrau: 50 years of connecting Tucson to outer space
They came up with the idea for a planetarium, blending research with entertainment—academics with the public's desire to learn about outer space. Well-known author Grace Flandrau was a winter ...