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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to launch its fifth tourist flight to space on June 4
The NS-21 will lift off from Launch Site One on Saturday, June 4 at 8:00 a.m. CDT (6:30 pm IST),…
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She was raised in a tiny gold-mining town in Taiwan. Now it's become a tourist trap — and she's fighting for the soul of the place.
Mountain town Jiufen in Taiwan welcomes millions of visitors a year, far outnumbering its 1,600 res…
Huileng Tan
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Space tourists will probably have sex up there, but they shouldn't get pregnant, researchers warn
Virgin Galactic just flew its first tourist crew, and SpaceX has launched a few. Researchers say sp…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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How to watch Virgin Galactic's first space tourist launch 300,000 feet above the ground
Virgin Galactic's Galactic 02 flight took off on Thursday. Here's how to watch the live stream as i…
Marianne Guenot
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Flying to space may be more regulated than a dive in an OceanGate submersible— but both require tourists to acknowledge they might die
Like the passengers on OceanGate's Titan submersible, tourists going into space also have to acknow…
Kelsey Vlamis
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If a space tourism flight goes horribly wrong, it could be even harder to rescue passengers than the Titan sub disaster
As more companies are sending tourists into space, the Titan submersible disaster highlights the ch…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Virgin Galactic unveiled its newest spacecraft that will take tourists to suborbital space - check out the VSS Imagine
The company's newest spacecraft lays the foundation for the way its future vehicles will be built, …
Tim Levin
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Hamish Harding, the billionaire on board the Titanic submersible, is a serial explorer who also went to space on a Blue Origin flight
Hamish Harding, one of the passengers on board the missing submersible visiting the Titanic, flew 6…
Marianne Guenot
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Japanese billionaire who spent $80 million flying to space said world leaders should do the same because it gives you a new perspective on Earth
Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire, made the comments in a press conference Wednesday, two days…
Marianne Guenot
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Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is under fire for offering $450,000 commercial space flights just a week after the Titan submersible tragedy
"Someone is seriously trying to decrease that 1% population," a social-media user commented about t…
Amanda Goh
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Virgin Galactic completed its third flight to the edge of space as it gears up to accept space tourists next year
Shares of Virgin Galactic spiked in early trading on Monday following the successful test flight.
Tim Levin
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Here's who's on board the missing Titanic tourist sub
OceanGate's CEO is one of 5 passengers on the missing Titanic tourist sub, alongside a renowned Fre…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to take another tourist flight to space: Here’s all you need to know
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's private space firm, is all set for its next flight in December with six g…
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Chamath Palihapitiya and Richard Branson are being sued over allegedly covering up flaws in Virgin Galactic's spaceships and pocketing millions by dumping shares
Palihapitiya and Branson took advantage of an "artificially inflated" stock price while knowing Vir…
Shalini Nagarajan
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NASA plans to spend up to $400 million on commercial space stations. It's evaluating about a dozen proposals from companies.
NASA expects to retire the International Space Station by the end of the decade. The agency is turn…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch SpaceX launch 4 space tourists into Earth's orbit
The Inspiration4 crew members have never been to space. They've only trained for five months. Their…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch Boeing launch its Starliner spaceship for NASA on a do-over flight to the International Space Station
NASA needs Boeing's Starliner spaceship to transport astronauts, but first the company has to fly i…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Winning bid for a seat on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spacecraft goes for $28 million
The winner of the auction, whose name will be released in coming weeks, will fly on the spacecraft …
Victoria Cavaliere
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I expected Iceland's Blue Lagoon to be a disappointing tourist trap, but it lived up to the hype
I thought Iceland's Blue Lagoon might be overpriced, overcrowded, or not as cool in person. I was p…
Talia Lakritz
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We spent $800 to explore a remote Scottish island that was nearly empty, and it was worth every penny to avoid other tourists
Insider's reporter visited Barra, a remote island in Scotland, right before its offseason. She said…