richard branson
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2021 Was the Weirdest Year in Space Ever
With space stations performing impromptu backflips, rockets careening out of control, billionaires going into space like they just don’t care, and space junk threatening to cause disaster nearly every week, 2021 will go down as one of the more memorable years in space.
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Amazon Is Helping Researchers Study How to Dim the Sun
Computer processors across Amazon Web Services recently hummed into gear to create 30 simulations of what Earth could look like by the middle of this century. Normally, climate models run on supercomputers. But this effort on Amazon’s servers represents one of the first attempts to do modelling on the cloud and could revolutionise how modelling…
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Flights Allowed to Resume After FAA Probe
The Federal Aviation Administration is satisfied with the corrective actions taken by Virgin Galactic following an incident on July 11 in which the company’s spaceplane flew outside of mandated airspace.
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What to Know About SpaceX’s Inspiration4, the First All-Civilian Mission to Orbit
To date, every mission to low Earth orbit has included at least one professional, government-employed astronaut. That’s set to change this week as an all-civilian crew prepares to blast off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.