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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon
The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar…
Is Jeff Bezos an Astronaut Now?
Blue Origin pinned custom astronaut wings to his flight suit. The Federal Aviation Administration may disagree.…
Astronomers See Moons Forming in Disk Around Distant Exoplanet
Scientists have never before gotten such a clear view of moons in the making. …
NASA InSight Mission Maps Mars on the Inside Down to the Core
NASA’s InSight mission revealed Mars’s inner workings down to its core, highlighting great differences of the…
The Amazonification of Space Begins in Earnest
With the suborbital flights made by Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson this month, the privatization of…
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin Crew Launches to Space
The Amazon founder and three others lifted off in Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, fulfilling a…
When and How to Watch Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launch to Space
The Amazon founder is poised to lift off from a site in West Texas with three…
When to Watch Jeff Bezos' Space Flight: Crew, Streaming and Launch Site
The Amazon founder’s spaceflight company will carry people to space for the first time on Tuesday.…
Wally Funk's Launch With Jeff Bezos Defies 60 Years of Exclusion From Space
Ms. Funk’s trip to space with Jeff Bezos is reason to celebrate. But the launch this…