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Per Wimmer – Exclusive interview with the adventurer and future private astronaut

Dr Andy Quinn and Per Wimmer talk about private spaceflight, the second space race and everything in between, discussing frontrunners Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin and what prospective space participants should expect when they blast Read more…

By YourSpaceflight, 2 months ago June 24, 2018

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Interview 2 with Vijay, aerospace engineer & BBC2 Astronauts contestant

Dr Andy Quinn catches up Vijay after BBC2’s Astronauts: Do you have what it takes? series came to a close to get Vijay’s thoughts on the challenges of the series and on the wider second Read more…

By YourSpaceflight, 9 months ago November 25, 2017

Interviews

BBC2 Astronauts: Interview with Vijay

Dr Andy Quinn caught up with Vijay, one of the contestants on BBC2’s Astronauts: Do you have what it takes? series. Vijay, 35, is an aerospace engineer currently working on designs for a hypersonic space Read more…

By YourSpaceflight, 12 months ago August 20, 2017

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Crew walkway arrives at launch pad 39A in Florida
The access arm astronauts will transit when boarding SpaceX's Crew Dragon commercial capsule has arrived at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Photos: Final Delta 2 rocket assembled for launch in California
The step-by-step stacking of United Launch Alliance's final Delta 2 rocket was completed in June at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for liftoff Sept. 15 with an Earth science satellite for NASA.
Tanking test marks resumption of Delta 2 rocket’s final launch campaign
A team of United Launch Alliance and NASA engineers worked through Delta 2 launch day fueling procedures during a simulated countdown Wednesday for what should be the second-to-last time before the venerable rocket's final liftoff next month from California's Central Coast.
Live: launch pad 39A (members only)
Watch live video from the Kennedy Space Center of Launch Complex 39A.
Hayabusa 2 probe gets a closer look at asteroid amid landing preps
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft dropped within a half-mile of asteroid Ryugu last week, probing its gravity field ahead of key decisions in the coming days to settle on a target site for the robotic mission's first sample collection attempt, and the best touchdown location for a European lander stowed on the mothership.
Spacewalkers toss nanosatellites into orbit, hook up bird migration monitor
Clad in pressurized spacesuits, two Russian cosmonauts headed outside the International Space Station on Wednesday and hand-released four tiny CubeSats and installed hardware for a German experiment to track animal migration.
Video replay: Parker Solar Probe launches atop Delta 4-Heavy
Watch a video replay of NASA's Parker Solar Probe lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 37 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy on August 12, 2018.
Photos: Delta 4-Heavy takes off from Cape Canaveral
Driven by three RS-68A main engines, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off early Sunday from Cape Canaveral carrying NASA's Parker Solar Probe on a historic mission to study the sun.
NASA launches Parker Solar Probe on historic mission
Running a day late, a United Launch Alliance heavy-lift Delta 4 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral early Sunday, boosting NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe into space on a daring seven-year mission to "touch the sun" with repeated trips through the star's blazing outer atmosphere.
Launch of solar probe scrubbed by technical issue in terminal countdown
An automatic alarm in the final two minutes of the Delta 4-Heavy rocket's countdown early Saturday forced officials to delay blastoff with NASA's Parker Solar Probe by 24 hours.

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'Hard-Rock Excavation' Begins for Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) has now entered the "hard-rock excavation" phase, which will make way for the huge structure's foundations, leaders of the $1 billion project announced on Tuesday (Aug. 14).
Get an Up-Close Look at Boeing's New CST-100 Starliner Spaceship (Photos)
Boeing recently gave journalists a behind-the-scenes look at the company's new Starliner capsule, which could start carrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station as early as next year.
Melting Permafrost Below Arctic Lakes Is Even More Dangerous to the Climate, NASA Warns
Scientists have worried for years now that climate change will free carbon trapped in frozen soil in the Arctic, triggering faster climate change — but now they believe abrupt thawing below lakes is even more dangerous.
Photo Tour: Inside Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Spaceship Hangar
Take a look inside the CST-100 Starliner hangar, where Boeing is building the private space capsules that will fly NASA astronauts and more into space!
On This Day in Space! Aug. 18, 1868: Total Solar Eclipse Leads to Discovery of Helium
On Aug. 18, 1868, a French astronomer named Pierre Jules César Janssen discovered helium while observing a total solar eclipse in India. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.
'Foreign Object' on Mars Spotted by Curiosity Rover Is Just a Rock (Photo)
On Monday (Aug. 13), Curiosity photographed an odd, flat object that mission team members initially thought might have fallen off the car-size robot. But the "debris" turned out to be a Red Planet rock.
Exos Aerospace Reschedules First Suborbital Launch
Exos Aerospace, a Texas company developing a reusable suborbital rocket, now plans to carry out a first flight of its vehicle in late August as it sets its sights on a follow-on orbital vehicle.
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to Get a $5.8 Million Antenna Upgrade
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, the second-largest radio telescope in the world, is about to get a major upgrade.
Rocket On! These Cool Student Experiments Just Launched to Space
Dozens of students got to see their experiments travel from school to space. A sounding rocket soared from a NASA rocket facility in Virginia Tuesday (Aug. 14), carrying several student experiments under the RockSat-X program.
NASA's Opportunity Rover on Mars Still Silent 2 Months into Epic Dust Storm
Opportunity has been silent since June 10, when a monster Red Planet dust storm began blocking sunlight from reaching the solar-powered rover. But Opportunity's handlers still hope to get a ping once the dust has cleared.