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How much will a ticket to space cost?

by Janet Nguyen
Oct 13, 2021
The latest commercial flight includes William Shatner of "Star Trek" fame, a Blue Origin executive and two paying customers.
The crew of the Blue Origin spaceflight attends a press conference at the New Shepard rocket landing pad on Wednesday. William Shatner of "Star Trek" fame, second from the left, became the oldest person to fly into space at age 90.
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Under Armour is suiting up for the final frontier

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Oct 17, 2019
Companies have been in the business of outfitting astronauts since the beginning of manned space flight.
Under Armour has designed the spacesuits to be worn on Virgin Galactic's planned suborbital trips. Above, the removable mission patch, unique to each mission.
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Will reusable rockets bring us closer to consumer space travel?

by Annie Baxter
Nov 24, 2015
Jeff Bezos’ space company just became the first to land a spent rocket safely.
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Traveling to space? There's an agent for that

by Sanden Totten
May 2, 2014
Roughly 100 travel agents work as "accredited space agents" to sell seats for Virgin Galactic.
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