The “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan signed up to follow the billionaire Jeff Bezos and the actor William Shatner to the edge of space on the next Blue Origin spaceflight, the private company said on Tuesday. Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Mr. Bezos, said on Tuesday that […]
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NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-3 Commander Raja Chari, in his spacesuit during a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, August 30, 2021. SpaceX SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch its fourth NASA astronaut crew to the International Space Station until Wednesday, citing a storm system over the […]
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos marked his latest victory in the billionaire space race by ensuring that there was absolutely no space between himself and his rumored fiancée Lauren Sanchez on Friday, when the pair were pictured enjoying a very intimate public embrace during a day out in New York City. […]
Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft Shares in Virgin Galactic dived as much as 20% on Friday after the space tourism company said it was postponing its first commercial flight. The trip was scheduled for the third quarter of 2022, but will be delayed until the fourth as the firm conducts […]
The Star Trek actor William Shatner declared himself “overwhelmed” at becoming the oldest human in space, at the age of 90, during a brief but successful second crewed flight on Wednesday of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship from the west Texas desert. The Canadian, who for four decades played […]
UK’s first space flight could blast off from Shetland Islands as early as next year after company strikes deal with landowner Edinburgh rocket company Skyrora has struck a deal with a spaceport on Shetland belonging to billionaire landowner Anders Holch Povlsen Skyrora hopes its rockets will deliver satellites into orbit […]
The toughest part of going into space with Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company, the Star Trek actor William Shatner said, will be getting in and out of his chair in the New Shepard spacecraft. Shatner, 90, will become the oldest person to go into space when he blasts off as […]
Much of his 45-minute speech included talk of the 90-year old actor’s other projects, including his album, but near the end he explained how he got interested in blasting off. Jason Ehrlich, a friend and the producer of Shatner’s show “Better Late than Never,” came to him about a year […]