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1:13pm, 13th May, 2019

Amid the talk about moon missions, Mars fans push for a share of the space spotlight

An artist’s conception depicts a crewed mission to Mars. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Illustration / 2004) As NASA shifts the focus of its space exploration effort to the moon, the advocates of Mars exploration and settlement have a message for future lunar e...

1:46pm, 12th May, 2019

Space

Blue Moon and beyond: How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space, starting with lunar colony

Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, D.C., this week. (Blue Origin Photo) It’s our choice: a finite world with limited resources, or an infinite universe with unlimited potential. Those were the options presented b...

6:11pm, 10th May, 2019

Space

Virgin Galactic begins moving space effort from California to New Mexico spaceport

Spaceport America is becoming the true base of operations for Virgin Galactic. (Virgin Galactic Photo) After two successful crewed test flights to a 50-mile-high space milestone, Virgin Galactic says it’s shifting its operations from California to Ne...

6:46pm, 9th May, 2019

Space

Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos shows off a mockup of the Blue Moon lunar lander. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today laid out the architecture for missions to the moon that would support NASA’s goal of landing astronauts...

4:38pm, 9th May, 2019

Space

Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos shows off “Blue Moon,” a lunar lander built by his space company Blue Origin. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Update, 5 p.m. ET: Bezos showed off the new Blue Origin BE-7 engine, which will hot fire for the first time this summer. He also ca...

Studying DNA breaks to protect future space travelers

3:30pm, 9th May, 2019

Physics

Studying DNA breaks to protect future space travelers

(NASA/Johnson Space Center) Earth's atmosphere shields life on the ground from cosmic radiation that can damage DNA. Astronauts in space have no such protection, and that puts them at risk. An investigation on the International Space Station exa...

12:22pm, 9th May, 2019

Space

Jeff Bezos gets set to share updated vision for Blue Origin in space — and on the moon

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and one of his Blue Origin rockets. (Blue Origin Photo) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is about to lay out an updated vision for his “other” multibillion-dollar venture, the Blue Origin rocket company,...

World Economic Forum has announced the introduction of a Space Sustainability Rating

1:46pm, 7th May, 2019

Tech

World Economic Forum has announced the introduction of a Space Sustainability Rating

(University of Texas at Austin) 'The near-Earth space is a global commons and is in dire need of environmental protection and measures of sustainability. The SSR is the first major step in establishing those sustainability metrics' - UT Eng...

9:55am, 2nd May, 2019

Space

Blue Origin sends dozens of payloads to space — and looks ahead to sending people

Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster touches down on its West Texas landing pad at the end of a successful flight. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, today sent dozens of science experiments and ot...

1:42pm, 1st May, 2019

Space

Watch Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture launch a science extravaganza

Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lands itself at the end of a test flight in July 2018. (Blue Origin Photo) Blue Origin, the private space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, says it’s sending up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on its nex...

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Amid the talk about moon missions, Mars fans push for a share of the space spotlight

Blue Moon and beyond: How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space, starting with lunar colony

Virgin Galactic begins moving space effort from California to New Mexico spaceport

Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Studying DNA breaks to protect future space travelers

Jeff Bezos gets set to share updated vision for Blue Origin in space — and on the moon

World Economic Forum has announced the introduction of a Space Sustainability Rating

Blue Origin sends dozens of payloads to space — and looks ahead to sending people

Watch Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture launch a science extravaganza

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