Bezos’ Blue Origin launches first crew to edge of space since 2022 grounding
Reuters Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew – including the first US Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s – from West Texas to the edge of space on Sunday, resuming its centrepiece space tourism business for the first time since its suborbital New Shepard rocket was grounded in 2022. “I am […]
At US cathedral, Jeff Bezos is quizzed on “emotional” rocket ride and economics of space flight
Washington DC, US RNS Jeff Bezos was a surprise guest at a Washington National Cathedral forum on “Our Future in Space” on Wednesday evening, giving an interviewer the chance to grill the Amazon founder and space flight entrepreneur about extraterrestrial colonies, alien life and his own wealth. Cathedral dean the Very Rev Randolph Marshall Hollerith […]
Wally Funk’s church celebrates her Blue Origin spaceflight: “What an inspiration she’s been to us all”
RNS Six decades after being denied a spot in the space program by NASA because of her gender, 82-year-old Wally Funk finally reached space aboard the first human flight of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space tourism venture, Blue Origin. Few people were more excited for Funk than her fellow congregants at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church […]
NASA rover faces ‘seven minutes of terror’ before landing on Mars
Los Angeles, US Reuters When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio alert as it streaks into the thin Martian atmosphere. By the time that signal reaches mission managers some […]
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