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On Monday, Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle brought six women into space, roughly 62 miles above the earth’s surface, for the first all-women crewed flight since a solo mission in 1963. The ...

In “The Islands and the Stars,” Subodhana Wijeyeratne charts how Tokyo’s space program has changed over the past century.

More than three decades after making history aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, Dr. Mae Jemison continues to inspire the next wave of space travelers while championing science and education on Earth.

The story of Laika, the first dog in space, feels like the beginning of an inspirational biopic. She began as a stray in Moscow and was lovingly given the name Kudryavka(Russian for "little curly one" ...

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How space dogfighting games evolved from vector lines to virtual cockpits.