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Russian film crew blasts off to make first movie in space: Report
A Russian actor and a film director rocketed to space Tuesday on a mission to make the world's first movie in orbit, a project the Kremlin said will help burnish the nation's space glory. Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions. Their Soyuz MS-19 lifted off as scheduled at 1:55 p.m. (0855 GMT) from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan and arrived at the station after about 3 hours. Shkaplerov took manual controls to smoothly dock the spacecraft at the space outpost after a glitch in an automatic docking system. The trio reported they were feeling fine and spacecraft systems were functioning normally. Peresild and Klimenko are to film segments of a new movie titled Challenge, in which a surgeon played by Peresild rushes to the space station to save a crew member who suffers a heart condition. After 12 d
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Jeff Bezos' rocket firm Blue Origin accused of toxic culture, lax safety
Blue Origin launched the Amazon founder to the edge of space in July and has another flight planned in October, but the company has experienced other setbacks this year.
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Virgin Galactic says US FAA has cleared it for further flights
The company said it was advised by the FAA that corrective actions proposed by Virgin Galactic have been accepted.
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SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew returns safely
The three-day mission ended as the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, parachuted into calm seas
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USA's new space race slows down as Bezos sues to keep Musk from soaring
Bezos's companies are increasingly resorting to politics and legal filings to get ahead as they fall behind Elon Musk's SpaceX and satellite-based broadband services
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Four space tourists end their trailblazing trip with Atlantic splashdown
The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut
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4 SpaceX tourists return to Earth after 3-day extra-terrestrial excursion
Four SpaceX tourists returned to Earth from a three-day extra-terrestrial excursion on Saturday evening, marking the end of the first-ever flight to Earth's orbit flown entirely by tourists
Inspiration4: SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip
SpaceX's first private flight blasted off Wednesday night with two contest winners, a health care worker and their rich sponsor, the most ambitious leap yet in space tourism. It was the first time a rocket streaked toward orbit with an all-amateur crew no professional astronauts. The Dragon capsule's two men and two women are looking to spend three days circling the world from an unusually high orbit 100 miles (160 kilometers) higher than the International Space Station before splashing down off the Florida coast this weekend. Leading the flight is Jared Isaacman, 38, who made his fortune with a payment-processing company he started in his teens. It's SpaceX founder Elon Musk's first entry in the competition for space tourism dollars. Isaacman is the third billionaire to launch this summer, following the brief space-skimming flights by Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos in July. Joining Isaacman on the trip dubbed Inspiration4 is Hayley Arceneaux, 29
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Jeff Bezos, along with 3 others, to fly 'beyond Karman line' today
Jeff Bezos is all set to fly to the edge of space, beyond the Karman line, on Tuesday, along with three others, aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
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Can Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin be more than space joyrides for the rich?
The first billionaire in space has excited some, feeling that they too may one day see the Earth from 85km if they can afford $250,000 for a one-hour trip
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Virgin Galactic ride: Race for space may not just be rich man's fun & game
Craft engineering may improve transport safety on Earth; also encourage space debris clean-up
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Space tourism spinoffs
Technology could find application in multiple areas
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You only have to be rich to fly in space
Wealthy passengers who can afford a ticket will endure only a few days of training
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