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Billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos is launched with three crew members aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket

Rockets Emit 100x More CO2 per Passenger Than Flights – Imagine a Whole Industry

Eloise Marais 31/07/2021

Scientists need a better understanding of the effect the...

Recent Dutch high school graduate Oliver Daemen and pioneering female aviator Wally Funk float weightlessly

Jeff Bezos and Civilian Crew Successfully Complete Suborbital Flight

Eric M. Johnson 21/07/2021

Pioneering aviator Wally Funk, 82, and recent high school...

FILE PHOTO: File photo of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flies over the Mojave Desert shortly before successfully completing a test flight that broke the sound barrier

What’s a Suborbital Flight? An Aerospace Engineer Explains.

John M. Horack 18/07/2021

Conceptually, the flights that Branson and Bezos will be...

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There Is Little Scientific Novelty in the Branson v. Bezos v. Musk ‘Space Race’

Luke Savage 16/07/2021

The new frontier is concerned not with the democratisation...

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Family of Sirisha Bandla, Virgin Galactic Astronaut, ‘Happy and Overwhelmed’

Reuters 05/07/2021

Her grandfather, Dr Ragaiah, a retired scientist, said she...