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New Shepard: Rocket for Space Tourism

April 20, 2018 | Reference

New Shepard is a rocket manufactured by Blue Origin for space tourism. It is designed to take up to six passengers into suborbital space inside of a crew capsule.
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Bankrupt Spaceflight Company's Space Plane Assets to Help Young Minds Soar

April 20, 2018 | Article

Before it went bankrupt last year, XCOR Aerospace aimed to fly tourists to space with the company's Lynx suborbital vehicle. But now, XCOR's assets will help give high school and college students hands-on experience with rockets and space technology.
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Ex-Space Plane: Inside the Hangar at Bankrupt XCOR Aerospace (Photos)

April 18, 2018 | Image Album

XCOR Aerospace was developing a space plane called Lynx, but that work stopped when the company went bankrupt in 2017. Here's a look inside XCOR's former facilities at the Mojave Air and Space Port, courtesy of Space.com contributor Douglas Messier.
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Awesome Video Shows What It Was Like to Fly Virgin Galactic's Rocket-Powered Test Flight

April 07, 2018 | Article

Even after flying 140 different types of aircraft, the chief pilot on Virgin's successful powered spaceship test yesterday (April 5) says being at the helm of the VSS Unity was "something else."
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Watch Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity Soar on 1st Powered Flight (Video)

April 06, 2018 | Article

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo performed its first powered test flight in more than three years yesterday (April 5), and a new video takes you along for the highly anticipated ride.
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Virgin Galactic Completes 1st Powered Test Flight Since Fatal 2014 Crash

April 05, 2018 | Article

Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity launched its first rocket-powered test flight over Mojave, California, on April 5, 2018. The flight did not go to space, but was the company's first powered test since a 2014 crash.
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'Luxury Space Hotel' to Launch in 2021

April 05, 2018 | Article

Well-heeled space tourists will have a new orbital destination four years from now, if one company's plans come to fruition.
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'Spaceport Earth': Journey to the World's Launchpads in New Book

March 28, 2018 | Article

SpaceX's spectacular Falcon Heavy launch last month — which saw a powerful rocket lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center with a Tesla Roadster on board — is just one herald of the new era of space exploration, argues the author of a new book.
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Smithsonian Channel Specials Tell Humanity's Story, from the Big Bang to Colonizing Space

March 23, 2018 | Article

Four exciting space documentaries will make their American debut on the Smithsonian Channel over the next two Sundays (March 25 and April 1). Together, the films tell humanity's story from the perspective of space.
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Stephen Hawking Never Reached Space, But He Sought to Lift All of Humanity

March 14, 2018 | Article

Stephen Hawking was most famous for melding general relativity with quantum mechanics and bringing big-picture cosmology to the masses in a series of best-selling books. But he was a passionate advocate for space exploration as well.
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