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The Associated Press. SpaceX/AP Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski are on SpaceXs first private spaceflight. Computer game developer Richard Garriott – who paid his way to the International Space Station in 2008 with the Russians – hates the space tourist label. “I am an astronaut,” he declared in an email, explaining that he trained for two years for the mission. “If you go to space, you’re an astronaut,” said Axiom Space’s Michael Lopez-Alegri...

As space tourism grows, who gets to call themselves an astronaut? Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut? It’s already a complicated issue and about to get more so as the wealthy snap up spacecraft seats and even entire flights for themselves and their entourages. Astronauts? Amateur astronauts? Space tourists? Space sightseers? Rocket riders? Or as the Russians have...

Marcia Dunn This Oct. 25, 1985 photo made available by NASA shows U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson of Florida, STS 61-C payload specialist. In a May 2021 interview, Nelson, NASAs new boss, doesnt consider himself an astronaut, even though he spent six days orbiting Earth in 1986 aboard space shuttle Columbia - as a congressman. (NASA via AP) May 25, 2021 - 9:20 AM CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to ca...

May 7th, 2021 i Only 553 people have ever been to space and, even with our emerging space tourism industry, the chances of you or anyone you know actually doing the same in this lifetime are astronomically small. But rather than bring people up to the international space, the Emmy award-winning team at Montreal’s Felix and Paul Studios is instead bringing a little bit of the international space station down to the people in its four-part immersive, virtual reality video series, "We use this ...

Shchit-2 was a Soviet-era missile created to protect the Almaz military space stations from foreign threats. An example of the missile is currently displayed in a restricted area at NPO Mashinostroyenia, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, Russia, alongside an earlier version - called the Shchit-1. The Shchit-1 featured a 23mm cannon and is the only gun to ever be fired in space, reported The Drive, as far as public information suggests. The Almaz programme was a hidden effort by the Soviet...

(Photo : Photo by Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal integration facility at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-2 mission, on April 16, 2021 at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Stati...

Blue Origin rocket test will monitor capsule access by humans By (0) Blue Origin, which plans to launch its New Shepard rocket Wednesday from Texas, has built manufacturing plants for space endeavors, including this plant in Florida at which the company develops the New Glenn rocket. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo Blue Origin plans to launch its New Shepard rocket Wednesday from Texas, carrying the companys test dummy, Mannequin Skywalker, as shown in a previous flight in Januar...

Putin touts space power as Gagarin hailed AFP, MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called for the nation to remain a great power in space, as it celebrated the 60th anniversary of the legendary flight that made Yuri Gagarin the first person in orbit. Russia’s space industry has struggled and been hit by a series of mishaps, but the sending of the first human into space on April 12, 1961, remains a major source of national pride. After visiting a memorial in southern Russia at th...

Russia marks Cosmonautics Day — in pictures Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became famous worldwide after his 108-minute flight above the earth 60 years ago. Larger than life Yuri Gagrins status rocketed him to major status even beyond the grave. A statue of him stands on display at the Museum of Cosmonautics. Festivities above and below The day has been celebrated every year as Cosmonautics Day since the spaceflight took place in 1961. It is even celebrated underwater at the aquarium at the Ex...

Canadian companies shoot for the stars (literally). Next up: the moon, maybe Mars Virtual reality gurus from Montreal, precision camera whizzes from Manitoba boldly go where no Canadian has gone before Author of the article: Joe OConnor Publishing date: Apr 08, 2021  •  58 minutes ago  •  7 minute read  •  Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, who features in Felix & Paul Studios Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, takes a selfie in space. Photo by NASA Reviews and...