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After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk — who trained for NASAs Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space — is finally getting her time amongst the stars. Shes been selected by the worlds richest man, Jeff Bezos, to accompany him, his brother, and an as-yet unknown auction winner on a suborbital trip on July 20.. Blue Origin announced that the 82-year-old will take the fourth spot on the inaugural crewed flight of its New Shepard suborbital spacecraft, alongsi...

“I’ve always been a dreamer. My mum taught me to never give up and to reach for the stars. On July 11, it’s time to turn that dream into a reality aboard the next @VirginGalatic spaceflight,” tweeted Mr Branson. It will be Virgin Galactic’s fourth crewed test flight using VSS Unity, a spaceplane that is dropped from a carrier in mid-air before shooting up to the very edge of space. Those onboard will experience two minutes of weightlessness before returning to the company’s New Mexi...

Jeff Bezos selects 82-year-old woman who trained to be an astronaut six decades ago to join him in space Brandon Sapienza, New York Daily News © MARK RALSTON/AFP/TNS Future space tourists led by Wally Funk, right, who have paid their deposits on the $200,000 fare, celebrate before the Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise spacecraft makes its first public landing during the Spaceport America runway dedication ceremony near Las Cruces, New Mexico, on October 22, 2010. Wally Funk trai...

An 82-year-old woman trained to be an astronaut sixty years ago. Now shes going to space with Jeff Bezos By: CNN Kena Betancur/Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images (CNN) -- After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk — who trained for NASAs Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space — is finally getting her time amongst the stars. Shes been selected by the wor...

Astronauts Demonstrate CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing In Space Source: PLOS ONE NASA Astronaut Christina Kock performing the experimental procedure aboard the International Space Station. CREDIT Sebastian Kraves PLOS Researchers have developed and successfully demonstrated a novel method for studying how cells repair damaged DNA in space. Sarah Stahl-Rommel of Genes in Space and colleagues present the new technique in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 30, 2021. Damage to an o...

This is because really good reporters, dogged reporters, at the "arizona mirror," "the arizona republic" have been documenting this stuff for posterity. you otherwise wouldnt believe it. but a significant portion of the country, a majority of republican voters across the country say they believe that donald trump actually won re-election or at least that there was significant fraud and there were many irregularities in the last election. and when majorities of republican voters tell pollsters th...

Reporters, dogged reporters, at the "arizona mirror," "the arizona republic" and local tv stations in phoenix and the arizona watch have been documenting this stuff for posterity. you otherwise wouldnt believe it. but a significant portion of the country, a majority of republican voters across the country say they believe that donald trump actually won re-election or at least that there was significant fraud and there were many irregularities in the last election. and when majorities of republic...

Have changed and russia has much to give as they move forward in space. >> here is what pamela who is now the nominee for nasa deputy administrator thinks about chinas space program. let lets listen to what she said. >> reporter: china made their goals very clear to take away space superiority from the united states. so were right to be concerned. when you add the other concerns of intellectual property theft and aggressive behavior in space. >> so help us understand how big of a concern that is...

Communist Chinas space program is demonstrating that it is on a trajectory possibly to surpass the US in the military and scientific exploration in our solar system. China is planning a space spectacular to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party on July 23, 1921. Today, June 17, China launched a three-astronaut crew who will inhabit the command module of its soon-to-be-completed Tianhe Chinese Space Station. This planned human launch follows the June...

Station. janis mackey frayer has an inside look and hard to get closer than she got to the launch pad. >> reporter: tonight a first. china sending astronauts to its new space station. blasting off from the gobi desert. docking 242 miles above the earth. this is a milestone for china. its poured billions into becoming a space power and its getting there fast. the chinese station of heavenly palace is the quarter of the size of the international space station. but with the iss getting old china co...