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Helicopter carrying Iran's hard-line president apparently crashes in foggy, mountainous region

US News: India-born Gopi Thotakura made history on Sunday evening as he became the first Indian citizen to venture into space as a tourist.

Blue Origin successfully resumes crewed spaceflights after 21 months, sending six astronauts, including the first Black astronaut candidate, on a suborbital mission.

Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company. The 90-year-old Dwight blasted off from West Texas with five other passengers on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a NASA astronaut candidate. But he wasn’t picked. The trip made Dwight the record-holder for being oldest person in space. He eclipsed the record of “Star Trek” actor William Shatner, who flew in 2021. This was Blue Origin's first passenger flight since a roc...

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew \u2014 including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s \u2014 from West Texas to the edge of space on Sunday, resuming its centerpiece space tourism business for the first time since its suborbital New Shepard rocket was grounded in 2022.