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Watch live @ 2:38 am ET: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa launching to space station Wednesday

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his video producer Yozo Hirano will launch to the International Space Station with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 2:38 a.m. EST. Live webcast begins at 2 a.m. EST. Webcast and full story.

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This NASA graphic shows the location of bright Venus and the moon, Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky on Dec. 7, 2021.

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    NASA returns Hubble Space Telescope back to full science operations
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    Asteroid scientist Amy Mainzer talks space rock impacts and Netflix's new movie 'Don't Look Up'
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    You can see the bright Comet Leonard in a free live webcast tonight
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    NASA celebrates the life and career of 'Star Trek' star Nichelle Nichols
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    See the moon near Saturn in the night sky tonight as Venus shines bright

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Billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa (left), cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (center) and video producer Yozo Hirano (right) are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station on Dec. 8, 2021. Hirano will participate in health-related research during and after the mission.

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By Elizabeth Howell published

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Nichelle Nichols, Uhura on "Star Trek," stars in the new documentary "Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA," which recounts her role in expanding diversity at NASA.

NASA celebrates the life and career of 'Star Trek' star Nichelle Nichols

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Nichols, aka 'Uhura', is retiring from decades of space advocacy at age 88.

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