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Axiom’s private mission inches commercial space station dreams closer to reality

ORLANDO, Fla. — Axiom Space made history in 2022 with the first all-private mission to the International Space Station. The company is ready to do it again, but with more focus on its endgame: having its own commercial space station in what could potentially be a crowded playing field in…

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Watch SpaceX's Ax-2 private astronaut launch for Axiom Space in this free livestream on May 21

SpaceX's next private spaceflight will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday (May 21) and you can watch the mission live online in a series of free webcasts.

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Behold! NASA Releases Stunning Images of Jupiter's Fiery Moon Io

NASA sailed its Juno spacecraft to Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io.

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Formidable asteroid to hurl past Earth Sunday, 4 others approaching this weekend

An asteroid by the name of 2023 JK is expected to zip past Earth on Sunday, missing our planet by just a little more than a million miles.

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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander

A team led by Jeff Bezos's rocket company wins a coveted $5.1 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to the Moon's surface.

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Blue Origin wins NASA contract to join SpaceX for moon landings

Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk officially have something else in common, as NASA awarded its second moon landing contract for the Artemis program to a large group of aerospace companies led by Blue Origin.

Orlando Sentinel

NASA awards high-stakes contract for lunar lander

Blue Origin has won a contract with US space agency NASA to build a spacecraft to send astronauts to and from the moon's surface.

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NASA announces that Bezos’s Blue Origin will build moon lander

The contract is a milestone for Bezos’s space company after it lost a previous lunar-landing bid to competitor SpaceX.

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NASA picks Bezos' Blue Origin to build lunar landers for moonwalkers

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after losing out to SpaceX

The Independent UK

‘Deep Impact,’ ‘Armageddon’: How two ’98 movies tackled doom from above

25 summers ago, filmgoers had their choice of cataclysmic comet movies — one with big stars and big noise, the other smarter and better.

Chicago Sun-Times

NASA Just Picked the Company That Will Land Its Second Moonwalking Artemis Crew

NASA has selected the company that will build its second Artemis Program Moon lander. Blue Origin will split the cost with NASA for the Artemis V mission.

Inverse

Blue Origin will build NASA's new moon lander for Artemis astronauts

Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander will take astronauts to the lunar surface in 2029, on the Artemis 5 mission. It's the second NASA moon lander for astronauts, after SpaceX's Starship.

Space

Nasa finds new Earth-sized planet, possibly covered in volcanoes

The planet, currently called ‘LP 791-18 d’, is said to be around 90 light years from Earth

Evening Standard

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos announces $3.4BILLION NASA mission to MOON 'to stay'

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander

Blue Origin and lawmakers had put pressure on NASA to contract for a second lunar lander in order to encourage commercial competition and guarantee that the organisation had a backup way to the moon.

Reuters

Bezos' Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander

A team led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the moon's surface, the U.S. space agency said on Friday, a breakthrough for the company two years after it lost out to Elon Musk's SpaceX…

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'Do what scares you:' 3 tips to succeed from Artemis 2 moon astronaut Christina Koch

Astronaut Christina Koch is no stranger to hard work, or success. Here are 3 tips the NASA Artemis 2 mission specialists has for kids hoping to walk on Mars one day.

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SpaceX's Ax-2 mission for Axiom Space in photos (gallery)

A new crew of four people is bound for orbit on the Ax-2 mission, which will fly to the International Space Station using SpaceX hardware. See photos of the Ax-2 mission here.

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Axiom-2: Everything You Need to Know About the Private ISS Mission

Houston-based Axiom Space is gearing up to launch Axiom 2, its second crew to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket and vehicle.

Tribune News Service

Flanked by moon mission astronauts, Kelly calls NASA the ‘Dolly Parton’ of government

WASHINGTON — News conferences outside the Capitol don’t always attract a crowd of visitors and tourists — but most also do not feature astronauts in flight suits.

Space

Senate Republicans criticize NASA for its climate change and diversity efforts

Following recent diversity and climate change initiatives by NASA, two Senate republicans accused the space agency of straying from its core space exploration mission.

LiveScience

'Planet killer' asteroids pose no threat to Earth for at least 1,000 years — but smaller rocks could still be a problem

The risk of a kilometer-scale asteroid hitting Earth in the next millennium is really low. Phew.

Space

Supernova explosion's weird leftovers may contain a super-dense star

A young NASA mission spotted strange movements of X-rays in the supernova remnant known as Cassiopeia A, which may include an extremely dense and small star.

Space

Earth is safe from a devastating asteroid impact for 1,000 years (probably)

Earth probably won't get hit by an asteroid at least 0.6 miles (1 kilometers) wide in the next 1,000 years, a new study finds.

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Flanked by moon mission astronauts, Kelly calls NASA the ‘Dolly Parton’ of government - Roll Call

As debt talks loom, NASA leaders and astronauts who are slated to go to the moon met with key House and Senate appropriators.

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