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July 6, 2025

outer space

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Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown, delivery for NASA

March 8, 2025 Marcia Dunn

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on […]

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Billionaire Richard Branson reaches space in his own ship

July 16, 2021 North State Journal Staff

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Swashbuckling billionaire Richard Branson hurtled into space aboard his own winged rocket ship Sunday, bringing astro-tourism a step closer to reality and beating out his exceedingly richer rival Jeff Bezos. […]

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Bezos plans to go to space aboard Blue Origin flight in July

June 7, 2021 Michelle Chapman, Associated Press

Jeff Bezos will be aboard for Blue Origin’s first human space flight next month. In an Instagram post early Monday, Bezos said he, his brother, and the winner of an ongoing auction, will be aboard […]

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Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer

April 28, 2021 Jessica Gresko, The Associated Press

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the lunar surface, died Wednesday. He was 90. Collins died of cancer, his […]

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Cosmic mouthful: Tasters savor fine wine that orbited Earth

March 29, 2021 The Associated Press

BORDEAUX, France — It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000-euro bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space. […]

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NASA rover lands on Mars to look for signs of ancient life

February 19, 2021 Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer […]

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Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky, closest in centuries

December 20, 2020 Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century. Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the […]

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