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Blue Origin discloses the 6 passengers for its next spaceflight, including 'Good Morning America' anchor Michael Strahan and the daughter of the first American to fly to space
Blue Origin has invited the "GMA" anchor Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter …
Kate Duffy
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Blue Origin's second space trip scheduled for October 12, two passengers confirmed
This will be New Shepard's 18th mission, and the second crewed flight to space. The NS-18, wi…
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Jeff Bezos left planet Earth and returned victorious, completing Blue Origin's first passenger spaceflight
Bezos skimmed the edge of space for just three minutes, but the New Shepard launch is a major step …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Lunar loo: Did Apollo astronauts' 96 bags of poop and urine seed the Moon with life?
During the six Apollo missions that landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972, astronauts left behin…
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin insists its passengers eat breakfast but avoid coffee and orange juice before they blast into space
Blue Origin advised passengers to avoid drinking coffee and orange juice due to the acidity, two as…
Kate Duffy
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has 'thousands of people in the auction process' for a ticket to space and needs to build more rockets to meet the demand, CEO says
Bob Smith also said Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is building more rockets and can "easily double" its cr…
Sarah Jackson
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Blue Origin launches 6 passengers to the edge of outer space, including 'Good Morning America' anchor Michael Strahan and the daughter of the first American to fly to space
This was Blue Origin's third successful human flight.
Zahra Tayeb
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Inside Blue Origin's Astronaut Village where space tourists sleep in Airstream trailers and hang out around a firepit: 'It's not a five-star hotel.'
Blue Origin's Astronaut Village has a restaurant, bar, and firepit where passengers and staff can "…
Kate Duffy
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I'm a Twitch streamer who became an astronaut after flying into space on Jeff Bezos' rocket. I loved floating in zero gravity but struggled with the journey back to Earth.
Blue Origin passenger Cameron Bess, who was the first pansexual astronaut, had dinner with founder …
Kate Duffy
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Jeff Bezos is launching to space on July 20, 15 days after he exits his role as Amazon CEO
Andy Jassy will be Amazon CEO when Bezos launches into space, and it's unclear if his space flight …
Katie Canales
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Jeff Bezos went to space to realize how fragile Earth is. A 10-minute flight may not be long enough to experience this 'overview effect.'
Some astronauts realize how fragile the Earth is when they see it from space - known as "the overvi…
Aylin Woodward
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Orlando Bloom said Katy Perry convinced him to play their neighbor Prince Harry in HBO Max's 'The Prince'
Orlando Bloom told The Hollywood Reporter that he agreed to the role before he ever met Prince Harr…
Mikhaila Friel
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Jeff Bezos is now devoting his time to building multi-billion dollar rockets. Here's how his space company, Blue Origin, hopes to colonize the solar system.
After stepping down as Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos has more time to focus on Blue Origin's goal of trans…
Kate Duffy
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A North Carolina deputy has been fired and charged after 'terrorizing' a black family along with an armed 'mob' in a case of mistaken identity, officials say
The deputy was off-duty, but armed and in uniform when he stuck his foot in the family's front door…
Michelle Mark
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NASA's human computer who inspired the movie 'Hidden Figures' Katherine Johnson passes away
Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration fo…
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From peeing in a 'roll-on cuff' to pooping into a bag: A brief history of how astronauts have gone to the bathroom in space for 57 years
A variety of makeshift solutions have been sent into space, including pee bags, roll on "cuffs," di…
Hilary Brueck
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Trump's picks for his 'National Garden of American Heroes' include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kobe Bryant, and a quiz-show host
Trump picked a diverse and curious selection of famous Americans for his proposed National Garden o…
Thomas Colson
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10 Things in Politics: Trump's a blogger now
And a federal judge orders the Justice Department to turn over a secret memo related to the Mueller…
Brent D. Griffiths
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10 Things in Politics: Cheney goes down swinging in Trump fight
And meet the Prince devotee teaching yoga and meditation to burned-out DC Democratic insiders.
Brent D. Griffiths
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Here's What It Took To Become The First American Astronauts
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7. Front row, left to righ…