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A lifelong dream and 20 years of work: How Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos arrived at their 1st astronaut launch

The flight is a huge milestone for Blue Origin, which Bezos founded back in September 2000. It will mark the company's official entry into the suborbital space tourism business, because among New Shepard's four passengers is its first paying customer, an 18- ...

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos says crew will not wear spacesuits during historic launch

The first Blue Origin crew will not wear spacesuits during their 11-minute journey to space and back Tuesday (July 20), according to billionaire founder and flight crew member Jeff Bezos. Bezos and the rest of the passengers — his brother Mark, Mercury 13 ...

A powerful jet emerges from a black hole in unprecedented detail in new images

The images reveal the jet emitted by the black hole at the center of the Centaurus A galaxy with a ten times higher accuracy and with sixteen times sharper resolution than was possible before. " ...

Blue Origin to launch its 1st astronaut flight with Jeff Bezos and crew of 3 today

The rocket will carry the spacecraft on a suborbital path before separating, allowing the crew to descend in their capsule under parachutes for a ground landing. Liftoff is set for 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).

See the first photos from the Hubble Space Telescope after a major computer malfunction

"Astronomers had previously thought this was a "collisional ring" system due to the head-on merger of two galaxies," NASA wrote in an image description. "The new Hubble observations show that the ongoing interaction between the galaxies is far more ...

Ingenuity helicopter spies intriguing features on Mars during record-breaking flight

CNN

CNN

During a recent daring Martian flight by the Ingenuity helicopter July 5, the chopper acted like an aerial scout for the Perseverance rover as it sailed over rough but intriguing terrain. Now, photos taken during the 2,051-foot-long flight are helping the ...

Hubble resumes science observations after month-long outage

NASA said Saturday that the Hubble Space Telescope, now running on a backup payload computer, has resumed scientific observations after a failure knocked the aging observatory offline for more than a month. "All instruments on ...

Boeing crew capsule mounted on Atlas 5 rocket for unpiloted test flight

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Meet the crew launching on Blue Origin's 1st astronaut flight on July 20

Billionaire founder Jeff Bezos has nabbed a lot of the media attention, but he won't be the only crew member on board. Also riding him will be Bezos' brother Mark, 82-year-old Mercury 13 aviator Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old physics student.

After capturing first black hole photo, Event Horizon Telescope focuses on cosmic jets

CNET

CNET

Are all black holes functioning the same, regardless of size? We tend to think of black holes as gargantuan, light-eating behemoths. But even supermassive black holes, the gravitational sinkholes that exist at the center of galaxies, come in an array of sizes.