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A Parachute Failed to Deploy During Jeff Bezos' Space Tourism Comeback Mission
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoBlue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation...
The Advisers Helping Blue Origin’s CEO Reach New Heights
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoBut in December, the executive made a major departure from his comfort zone, starting as chief...
Engineer brothers found Forge to modernize hardware procurement
TechCrunch· 7 hours agoIt's exactly as complex as it sounds – but it doesn't have to be, or so say two brothers who just...
The war of ideas in space
Politico· 47 minutes agoLike China’s model, which has its own strengths (fewer political considerations, more top-down control) and weaknesses (a lack of transparency or...
Ed Dwight: A space pioneer who finally became an astronaut
BBC News· 5 days agoEd Dwight could have been the only black astronaut in the 1960s – but politics got in the way....
Is This the End for Virgin Galactic?
Motley Fool via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoDeep in the heart of Texas, Virgin rival Blue Origin resumed launching its own space tourism flights last month, after taking a 20-month hiatus to...
Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later
Washington Post· 6 days agoEd Dwight told himself the same story for decades: It didn’t matter that he never made it into...
Humans to Mars: What's the holdup? — part III
Interesting Engineering· 5 hours agoThis past summer, NASA admitted that the original target date, 2033, is no longer realistic. This leaves us with many questions.
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic battles to retain New York listing
Daily Telegraph· 5 days agoIn the coming days it plans to launch its second flight of this year, but Virgin Galactic has said...
Computer problem forces another delay for first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner
GeekWire via Yahoo News· 3 days agoFor the second time in a month, the first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner space capsule to the...
