Later this year I will spend time with former NASA astronaut instructors, before receiving high-G training, crew resource management training and spacesuit training, among other skills.
Virgin Galactic’s Unity VSS spacecraft went on a suborbital test flight in May 2021.
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Both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are sending spacecrafts – and their billionaire founders – into suborbital flight. But what differentiates a suborbital flight from a trip around Earth?
SpaceX concept of Starship.
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It’s 60 years since Gagarin’s world-first return from space. The cosmonaut never did make it to Australia, but his huge feat was celebrated here by many, despite tensions with the USSR.
It seems being in space could make us more reluctant to take risks.
Scale models of rockets at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation’s booth at the International Astronautical Congress.
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