commercial spaceflight
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SpaceX Claims to Have Fixed Its Leaky Toilet Ahead of Upcoming Launch
An upcoming launch to deliver four astronauts to the International Space Station is ready for 3, 2, 1, blast off — oh, aside from NASA still having to approve a last-minute adjustment made to SpaceX’s leaky toilet.
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How to Watch the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Mission to the ISS
Early Friday morning, NASA will attempt to launch a CrewDragon to the International Space Station. The occasion will mark just the second time that astronauts will fly aboard the newly developed SpaceX capsule. You can watch the action live right here.
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Virgin Galactic Is Finally Back In The Sky
Over the weekend, with the large grin of Richard Branson to see it off, Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, completed its first free flight over the Mojave Desert.
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The First Commercial Asteroid Mining Could Start In Just Three Years
If Deep Space Industries has its way, there’ll be a small robotic lander on a nearby asteroid in just three years. That’s the latest phase of the California-based asteroid mining company’s plan to bring about an outer space real estate boom by creating a resource supply chain off Earth.