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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will take off on Friday. Here’s what the crew is going to be wearing

The four-member crew of non-professional astronauts will be wearing newly designed SpaceX extravehi…

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Polaris Dawn spacewalk: Watch live as SpaceX's commercial astronauts attempt mission's historic EVA

The Polaris Dawn mission attempts a historic spacewalk today. Watch live as SpaceX's commercial ast…

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Boeing Starliner with Sunita Williams onboard could wait months in space before return as NASA mulls extending mission duration

Officials have repeatedly hinted that the Starliner, which faced issues with helium leaks and thrus…

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Meet SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew: The daring 4 who are in space on the most ambitious private space mission in history

The Polaris Dawn crew — Jared Isaacman, Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis, and Anna Menon — is traveling d…

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Boeing says its space mission is 'going well' despite its Starliner leaving 2 astronauts stuck on the ISS

Boeing is doing damage control after delaying Starliner's return from the International Space Stati…

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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams to address Earth from orbiting international Space Station

Meanwhile, crew of the Polaris Dawn the Elon Musk-led private charted spaceflight created history w…

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NASA awarded $750,000 to a business that wants to feed astronauts fresh microgreens and insects

Fresh, nutritious food is hard to come by in space. Interstellar Lab hopes to solve that with its c…

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Elon Musk says the FAA should make Boeing pay for putting the Starliner astronauts at risk, not fine SpaceX 'for trivia'

The FAA proposed fines for SpaceX, saying it violated launch licenses, and Elon Musk isn't happy.

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NASA says it has no plans to use SpaceX to rescue 2 stranded astronauts

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are stuck in space after Boeing's Starliner spacecraft f…

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NASA astronauts describe flight aboard Boeing's glitching, leaking Starliner spaceship

Boeing's Starliner got two NASA astronauts to the space station despite failures. Now they're waiti…

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Sunita Williams flies to ISS on NASA's Boeing Starliner tonight; 3rd time in space for Indian-origin astronaut

"I'm very proud of the teams who have worked really hard the last two and a half weeks to prepare f…

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Boeing's leaking Starliner spacecraft has delayed 2 astronauts' return to Earth

NASA and Boeing announced on Tuesday that Starliner's return from orbit had been delayed again to J…

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Remember Sunita Williams, Indian-origin astronaut who made history by going to space twice? She is all set to fly to space for the third time!

Wiliams will be tasked with conducting a series of tests to ensure the Starliner meets NASA's strin…

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SpaceX launches 4 people, including a billionaire, on the most ambitious private human spaceflight yet

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission lifted off with plans to attempt the first commercial spacewalk, in a…

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An astronaut stuck on the International Space Station due to Boeing Starliner delays is roughing it in a sleeping bag over in the Japanese space module

The astronauts have been roughing it up during their prolonged stay, Time reported. They are runnin…

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SpaceX is launching 4 people on a risky mission to fly through radiation belts and do the first commercial spacewalk

SpaceX's latest daring billionaire mission aims to open the Crew Dragon spaceship in the vacuum of …

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While Boeing's passenger planes glitch, NASA is entrusting the company's spaceship with 2 astronauts' lives

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft isn't totally safe from the cost-cutting, KPI-focused company culture…

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I worked at SpaceX training astronauts for NASA missions. My lesson plans helped launch its first crewed mission.

Ex-SpaceX employee Laura Crabtree worked under Elon Musk for 11 years, training crew for space. She…

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Elon Musk's SpaceX announces world's first all-civilian mission to space in 2021

Elon Musk-run SpaceX has announced worlds first all-civilian mission to space at the end of 2021 in…