Astronaut
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The UK’s role in the IM-1 mission will play a “key part” in NASA’s programme to send humans back to the moon. A Canadian space technology company with offices in Oxfordshire, MDA UK, has developed landing sensors for the mission with funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA). UKSA has spent £3.4m, spread across these…
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Buzz Aldrin has announced he has married his “long-time love” on his 93rd birthday, saying they are as “excited as eloping teenagers”. The retired astronaut – the second man to ever step foot on the moon – said he had “tied the knot” with Dr Anca Faur, who is reportedly 63, in a small ceremony…
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“Space now,” was what Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa wanted to tweet for years. He finally really did it, from the International Space Station. “The space market holds so much potential,” he said Friday at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Tokyo, his first news conference in Japan after returning to earth before Christmas. Maezawa, who heads…
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Astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to step foot on the moon, has died at the age of 82. He will be remembered for making invaluable contributions to the U.S. Space Program. During his 14-year astronaut career at NASA, Cernan went into space a record three times. The agency confirmed his death on Monday through…
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