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Fifty Years of Human Spaceflight
Human spaceflight has come a long way over the last 50 years since the launch of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 during the Vostok 1 mission. SPACE.com looks at just how far spaceflight has come and what's on the horizon.
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The X-15 test program offers lessons for the emerging suborbital spaceflight industry.
In the last year, private companies have unveiled asteroid mining projects, space rock sentinels and more.
Space tourist Dennis Tito's daring proposal to send a married couple on a 501-day space flight around the planet Mars and back.
NASA is facing a looming $900 million budget hit if Congress fails to act by March 1.
Two Canadian adventure-tour companies will add space to their list of destinations.
McKay helped train the Apollo moonwalkers and led a study that claimed a Mars meteorite may contain signs of past life.
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
Three spaceflyers on board the International Space Station "hung out" on with Google+ users, answering questions for 20 minutes.
Dennis Tito's nonprofit organization may want to launch astronauts toward the Red Planet in 2018.
The novel Skylon space plane concept could make orbital and Earth travel fast and affordable.
A brief look at how each American president helped shape and steer American activities in space.
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The president's annual address rarely mentions NASA, spaceflight or exploration.
But asteroid 2012 DA14's tilted orbit rules it out as a mining target.
The first Orion capsule could launch in 2014.
NASA's budget is greater than those of all other national space agencies combined, NASA deputy chief Lori Garver said.
The unmanned Progress 50 spacecraft arrived at the orbiting lab just three hours after blasting off.
The unmanned Progress 50 cargo ship is packed with 2.9 tons of supplies for space station astronauts.
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