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Elon Musk: 'We want a new space race - space races are exciting'
"I think it's going to encourage other companies and countries to say, 'hey, if SpaceX, which is a …
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX satellites nearly collided with China's space station twice this year, sparking online criticism of Elon Musk's 'space junk'
The two incidents, on July 1 and October 21, involved satellites from SpaceX's Starlink Internet Se…
Huileng Tan
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Trump said he 'made it possible' for Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos to launch into space, as the billionaire space race takes off
The former president also claimed on Fox News that he had reopened NASA, though the agency never cl…
Cheryl Teh
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China's small Beijing-3 satellite can take high-resolution images of US cities within seconds, a speed its American counterparts can't match, scientists say
The Beijing-3 captured high-definition images over a 1,470 square-mile area of the San Francisco Ba…
Matthew Loh
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One of SpaceX's biggest rivals on competing with Elon Musk and the new space race
Sir Peter Beck has built Rocket Lab into a $3.5 billion space company and SpaceX competitor.
Tom Carter
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90-year-old 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner will fly into space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin mission later this month
After decades of playing Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner will be traveling to outer space…
Grace Kay
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The race to become the next space ‘superpower’ lands China on the ‘dark side’ of the moon
Not only does is position China as a space superpower in the eyes of the the rest of the world, …
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'Whitey on the Moon' poem garners social media attention on anniversary of moon landing, Bezos's spaceflight
Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 poem re-emerged amid discourse about billionaires choosing to spend money on…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Amazon, SpaceX and Google are going all in to win the satellite space race
But, he’s not alone in this endeavour.
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90-year-old 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner on his space mission with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin: 'I'm thrilled and anxious and a little nervous and a little frightened'
"Star Trek" actor William Shatner told The Today Show he's "thrilled" and "a little frightened" abo…
Sarah Jackson
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Virgin Galactic is selling tickets to space for $450,000 as it plans more commercial flights this year
The space tourism tickets will cost a total of $450,000 for the 90-minute flight, including an init…
Grace Kay
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Eerie images of the remnants of America's Space Race will give you chills
In his book, "Abandoned in Place" (now available via the University of New Mexico Press and Amazon)…
Lydia Ramsey
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Read the email Blue Origin's CEO sent to staff addressing allegations of sexism, safety risks and a toxic work culture
An open letter that went public on Thursday accused the space company of neglecting safety concerns…
Grace Kay
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A billionaire astronaut bought up to three SpaceX flights and hopes to begin a new mission later this year
Jared Isaacman announced on Monday that he plans to fly to outer space with SpaceX again, after par…
Grace Kay
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SpaceX faces a growing list of competitors in the new space race - here's what their futuristic rockets will do
In the near future, Musk and SpaceX will face competition from a number of companies, including Jef…
Dave Mosher
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China is building a brand-new space station, and it may be the latest move in a new space race
NASA has already spent about $100 billion to keep the space station - which functions like an orbit…
Jeremy Berke
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Get Ready For The Next Space Race, Brought To You By Google
About the size of a large coffee table, the MX-1 is a completely self-contained single stage spacec…