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Developed by his company blue origin. >> i want to go on this flight because it's a thing i've wanted to do all my life. it's an adventure. it's a big deal for me. >> reporter: but more than just an adventure, new shepherd was designed to shuttle up to six paying customers, more than 62 miles above the earth's surface, for a few moments of weightlessness and panoramic views, earning the fliers their astronaut wings. while the rocket, which is fully autonomous, has flown 15 test flights, none of them have had humans on board until now. bezos's brother mark bezos will accompany him, an 82-year-o...

WORLD famous space body NASA have paid tribute to a former director who hailed from Leigh.

5 for 50: 5 Polymers that are out of this world NASA image From the Mercury Program to Mars, Apollo to Artemis, the Space Shuttle to SpaceX, elastomers, in all their earthly iterations, have found a home in air and space. Even the 19th-century origins of rubber, where vulcanization finds its etymology in the term Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, demonstrate that the compound perhaps always had aspirations beyond terra firma. Indeed, rubber, plastics, silicones and every polymer in between have made air and space travel possible, from the textile fabric fashioned to the airfoil of the Wright Fly...

It was the height of the Cold War and the beginning of what came to be called the Space Race 60 years ago on May 5, 1961, when Alan Shepard was launched into space on a 15-minute suborbital flight. The achievement marked the start of manned space flight for the U.S., coming less than a month after Yuri Gagarin orbited the planet for what was then the Soviet Union. That was on April 12, 1961. Linda Godwin was an 8-year-old girl growing up in Jackson when the first manned U.S. space flight occurred. "It was otherwise a really turbulent decade," Godwin said Monday of Shepard's flight. "The firs...

The Space Race encapsulates both the best and the worst of aspects of U.S. history. On the one hand, there is humanity’s drive to learn and explore. All space programs have no choice but to celebrate the wonders of mathematics, physics, and engineering. (To put this into ’80s film terms: no matter how jock-ish an image an astronaut wants to put forth, it’s still nerds who get us into space.) Space exploration doesn’t just raise the possibility that humanity will find new homes across the galaxy, but it also leaves technological innovation in its wake. But there’s still that other ha...