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William Shatner, who turned 90 last March, is going to fly on Jeff Bezos’ next Blue Origin rocket mission in October. Photo: William Shatner in 2020 and 1966. Photo Credit: Super Festivals; NBC Television 20 Tishri 5782 – September 26, 2021 | David Israel | The Jewish Press The grandson of Wolf Schattner who immigrated…
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Photo: Jeff Bezos, center, with his brother, Mark Bezos, left, and Wally Funk, an aviator who became the oldest person to travel to space, after their Blue Origin flight on Tuesday in Van Horn, Texas.Credit…Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press With the suborbital flights made by Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson this month, the privatization of the space…
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Photo: A section of a panorama produced by Zhurong, released June 27, showing comms and solar arrays, roving tracks and the distant landing platform. Credit: CNSA/PEC 27 June 2021 | Andrew Jones | Spacenews.com HELSINKI — China has released landing process footage from its Zhurong rover as well as video and sounds of the vehicle roving…
Photo: In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship with its Long March-2F carrier rocket is being transferred to the launching area of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China’s Gansu province, on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. A three-man crew of astronauts will blast off in June for a three-month mission…
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Photo: Amazon and Blue Origin founder and Paul Shaffer lookalike Jeff Bezos addresses the media about the New Shepard rocket booster and Crew Capsule mockup at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States April 5, 2017. (Reuters/Isaiah J. Downing/File Photo) The Big Three Money Boys are in a race to space. If…
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Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson could fly to space just a bit earlier than Blue Origin and SpaceX’s founders. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images Move over, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk — Richard Branson may be the first of the space firm founders to actually make it to space himself. Blue Origin announced Monday that Bezos, its founder, would fly…
