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Blue Origin will launch these 6 space tourists on May 19, its 1st crewed mission since 2022
By Josh Dinner published
Blue Origin plans to launch six people — including the United States' first-ever black astronaut candidate — on a suborbital spaceflight this weekend.

Blue Origin targeting May 19 for 1st crewed spaceflight since 2022
By Mike Wall published
Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (May 19) for the six-person NS-25, the company's first crewed spaceflight since August 2022.

This time, we take it from no one: Why opening the High Frontier of space can be different (op-ed)
By Rick Tumlinson published
The coming settlement of the High Frontier doesn’t have to be a repeat of the violent conquests and colonization of history. We will not take space from anyone, and we can give it to everyone.

NASA picks 9 companies to develop Mars 'commercial services' ideas
By Mike Wall published
NASA has selected nine companies to develop concepts that could agency science missions to Mars down the road.

Blue Origin will launch Ed Dwight, the 1st-ever Black astronaut candidate, to space on next New Shepard rocket flight
By Mike Wall published
The six-person crew of Blue Origin's seventh human spaceflight includes Ed Dwight, who was picked in 1961 to be the nation's first black astronaut candidate.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket rises on launch pad ahead of debut liftoff (photo)
By Elizabeth Howell published
Blue Origin's first New Glenn rocket has gone vertical at its Florida launch pad ahead of a planned debut liftoff later this year.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket simulator seen on launchpad from space (photos)
By Josh Dinner published
Satellites captured Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket standing upright at Launch Complex 36 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

'There's nothing magical that happens in 2030': NASA eyes possible ISS extension for astronaut missions
By Elizabeth Howell published
NASA says the ISS is healthy enough to keep flying past 2030, as things stand today. But the agency has other factors to consider to keep the venerable complex in space.

Blue Origin joins 2 stages of New Glenn rocket for the 1st time (photo)
By Mike Wall published
Blue Origin mated the two stages of its powerful New Glenn rocket for the first time recently, in preparation for the heavy lifter's debut later this year.

Watch balloon-like space station module explode (on purpose) during 1st full-scale burst test
By Elizabeth Howell published
Sierra Space's latest deliberate explosion saw a futuristic space module prototype blow to pieces. The burst test is meant to assure safety for a space station that may fly in 2030.
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