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Virgin Galactic to become the first publicly traded space travel firm

Virgin Galactic is to become the first publicly traded company for human space travel after it announced a merger with a major investment group

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Astronauts in mock cockpit

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Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

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A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, now deceased.

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7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon

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Astronaut on Moon

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Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

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Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status

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Wright brothers first powered flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, US, on 17 December 1903

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Has anyone ever died in space?

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Has anyone ever died in space?

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Astronauts don't seem to be dying from exposure to space radiation

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell isn’t just any astrophysicist. She was the first person to spot a pulsar, one of the weirdest objects in the universe.

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The Milky Way

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Life on Mars

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The space shuttle

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Apollo 13

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