Topic: space tourism
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Blue Origin Ends Its Suborbital Space Tourism Program
Blue Origin is pausing its New Shepard space tourism program, a move widely seen as permanent, to reallocate resources toward its lunar ambitions, including the New Glenn rocket. Despite a successful operational history with 38 launches and 98 space tourists, the program was a financial drain and...
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World's Busiest Spaceport Shatters Another Launch Record
The Space Coast in Florida set a new annual launch record with its 94th orbital mission of 2025, as a Falcon 9 rocket deployed 29 Starlink satellites, contributing to a global total of 259 orbital launches projected to reach 300 by year's end. Despite the increased launch frequency, public intere...
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China's secret space launch; Europe's drone ship advances
SpaceX's Starship program has achieved significant progress with the successful launch and recovery of the Super Heavy booster, though the Starship vehicle faced earlier setbacks including the loss of four prototypes in early 2025. Recent Starship missions have shown marked improvement, culminati...
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SpaceX's Rocket Failure Investigator Hans Koenigsmann Is Going to Space
Hans Koenigsmann, a long-serving SpaceX veteran, left the company in 2021 after two decades, having contributed significantly to mission safety and failure investigations. He is set to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft with Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, who will become the first wheelchair...
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