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The landing of the first stage of the Blue Origin Bell launcher. A step on the way to cheapening the suborbital flight. Photo: PR

The dream has become a reality: Blue Origin has successfully launched and re-landed a suborbital space launcher

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A simulation of Dream Chaser docked at the International Space Station. Source: Sierra Nevada Corporation.

Meet "Dream Chaser", the new member of NASA's supply spacecraft fleet for the International Space Station

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Artist's illustration of the Juno spacecraft near Jupiter. Image: NASA

Summary of the year 2015 in space, part 2016 - what is expected in XNUMX

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The vertical landing of the New Shepard launcher. Screenshot: Blue Origin

Blue Origin succeeded for the first time in the history of the space program in safely landing a reusable space launcher

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A rendering of the Dream Chaser spacecraft landing at the Ellington Spaceport in Houston. Illustration: Houston Airports Authority

Ellington Airport in Houston has been licensed as a spaceport

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The nucleus of Comet 67P Churyumov-Grasimenko as imaged by Rosetta's Navigation Camera, December 7, 2014

Summary of 2014 Part I - Man in space: the landing on the comet, the test flight of Orion and the space disasters

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Richard Branson is practicing flying Spaceship-2. From the Virgin Galactic website

"The damage to the space tourism industry will only be in the short term, it is clear to everyone that there is a risk in technological developments"

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Landing (previous) of the spacecraft Spaceship-2. From the Virgin Galactic website

Tourist spaceship Spaceship-2: no second chance for landing * Branson: the project will continue

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One of the two pieces of the Spaceship 2 spacecraft tail on the ground in the Mojave desert, minutes after the spacecraft disintegrated during a test flight. Photo: Mujabi's army and emergency response team

Updates from the crash site of the spaceship-2 tourist spacecraft

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Debris of the SpaceShip 2 spacecraft that crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert, October 31, 2014. From Twitter

Second space accident in a week, one dead and one injured in the crashes of Virgin's Spaceship-2 spacecraft planned to fly space tourists

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A (imaginary) research station on the moon. Illustration: shutterstock

What is required of space colonies on other planets or at least of research stations? Part One

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Commercial Crew logo. Image: NASA

Boeing and SpaceX win NASA tender to fly astronauts to the space station

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Space elevator. Illustration: shutterstock

A "space elevator" will be built in the "Technorush" competition at the Technion

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Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft is docked at the space station with crew members on board. Illustration: Boeing

Boeing's first spacecraft will take off in 2017 on a test flight to the International Space Station

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Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket launch on January 9, 2014 followed by the launch at the Wallops Space Center, Virginia on a supply mission to the International Space Station on the Cygnus spacecraft. Photo: NASA

Another successful launch for a private American supply spacecraft to the space station

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Landing test, SPACESHIPTWO, October 2010. Photo: PR, Virgin Galactic

NBC will broadcast Virgin Galactic's maiden flight live, with Richard Branson and his family in attendance

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source of food and oxygen. The radish seeds that germinated in space. Photo courtesy of NSL Satellites

From middle school - to outer space

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Virgin Galactic's Spaceship 2 spacecraft during a takeoff and landing test in October 2012. PR photo

The space race is also coming to the reality show "Space Race": a new program on NBC will buy the lucky winner a plane ticket to space

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Separation of the first stage of the Anthras rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft, 18/3/13. Screenshot from NASA TV

Orbital Sciences' Cygnus payload spacecraft was successfully launched (photo gallery)

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The Anthras spacecraft is ready for launch at Wallops Island, Orbital Sciences' new launch center. Photo: NASA

A second private company enters supply service to the International Space Station: Orbital Sciences

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Separation of a booster as photographed during the test of Virgin Galactic's Spaceship 2 spacecraft on September 5, 2013. From a video by Virgin Galactic

This is what the Earth looks like from a camera on the tail of the private spaceship SpaceShipTwo (video)

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Artist's illustration of a lunar base. Photo: Spencer/Space Tourism Society.

How do you pay for upside down coffee at a restaurant on the moon? PayPal has a plan

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NASA Deputy Administrator Laurie Graver and Bigelow Aerospace President and CEO Robert Bigelow stand next to the Inflatable Space Station Model (BEAM) during a news conference on January 16, 2013. BEAM is set to be launched to the station in 2015 for a two-year technology demonstration experiment. NASA photo "A/Bill Ingles

NASA will attach a private inflatable space station model to the International Space Station

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Singer Sara Brightman at a press conference in Moscow, October 10, 2012, announcing that she will fly as a space tourist in 2015

Singer Sarah Brightman will be the next space tourist

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Visualization of the Spaceship 2 private spacecraft flight. Image: Virgin Galactic

"The private space business is on the fast track to take off," says Virgin Galactic President George Whitesides

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