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At 90 Bill Shatner to Become Oldest Jew in Space

James Porteous 27 September 2021 0 Comment

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...

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Is the billionaire-driven commercialization of space the Internet of the 90s?

James Porteous 27 July 2021 0 Comment

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,...

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Watch: China’s Zhurong Rover Landing on Mars

James Porteous 28 June 2021 0 Comment

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...

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China set to send first crew to new space station

James Porteous 16 June 2021 0 Comment

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...

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The Plot Sickens: Bid on a Trip to Space with Jeff Bezos (updated)

James Porteous 13 June 2021 0 Comment

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,...

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The Needy Billionaire Race to Space

James Porteous 9 June 2021 0 Comment

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...