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The International Space Station (ISS) is photographed by Expedition 66 crew member Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov from the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, in this image released April 20, 2022. Pyotr Dubrov/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS
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Saudi Arabia buys pair of SpaceX astronaut seats from Axioms

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of ecommerce company Amazon.com Inc, sits with the crew of a scheduled flight before they board Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket near Van Horn, Texas, US on 11 December, 2021. Blue Origin/Handout via REUTERS.
Science

Daughter of pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard soars to space aboard Blue Origin rocket

Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, who was a schoolgirl when her father first streaked into space, is one of six individuals due for liftoff at 8:45 a.m. Central time (1445 GMT) from Blue Origin's launch site outside the rural west Texas town of Van Horn.(AFP)
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Daughter of first American astronaut to launch on Blue Origin flight

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer of Germany, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron wave while departing the crew quarters for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space
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Latest astronaut crew of 4 welcomed aboard International Space Station

FILE PHOTO: Virgin Galactic's passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, carrying billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his crew, descends after reaching the edge of space above Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, U.S., July 11, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
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Virgin Galactic has sold 100 more space tickets

Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping, member of the second crew for China's new space station, salutes at a briefing the day before launch at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China, on Oct 14, 2021. Photo :AFP
China

Astronaut becomes first Chinese woman to spacewalk

Indian American astronaut Sirisha Bandla. Picture: India Today
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Family of Indian-American astronaut on Virgin Galactic crew 'happy and overwhelmed'

Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) Josef Aschbacher gestures as he talks during an interview with Reuters in Berlin, Germany, June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Mang
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'Space is for everyone': Europe's Space Agency to hire first disabled astronaut

Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming salute before the launch of the Long March-2F Y12 rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and the three astronauts, from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for China's first manned mission to build its space station, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
China

Chinese astronauts board space station module in historic mission

Ji Qiming, Assistant Director General of China Manned Space Agency speaks during a news conference before the Shenzhou-12 mission to build China's space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province, China June 16, 2021. Photo: Reuters
China

China to send three astronauts to space, including its oldest

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What do astronauts eat?

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on a NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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Astronauts leave ISS, begin return journey to Earth on SpaceX craft

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on a NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station