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Japanese rocket explodes in epic failure just seconds after inaugu🎃ral flight

♚ There was no immediate indication of what caused the explosion. 

Former Disney star launches space startup with over $6M in funding: 'Expect the unexpected'

Former Disney Channel star Bridgit Mendl🦂er announced that she's the co-founder and CEO of Northwood Space, a startup that's already scored $6.3 million in funding including from Peter Thiel's Founders...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center to host rave for astronomy geeks with cosmic-themed costumes

ꦡ This party is sure to be far out🤪. 

 NASA delays Artemis astronaut moon missions to 2025 over safety fears �꧂�

NASA delayed its crewed Artemis II mission around the moon into 2025, pushing the subsequent moon landing mission, Arteܫmis III, into 2026.

 Why the Space Sh💧uttle was the wrong craft at the wrong ಞtime

 A new book details🐷 how design challenges, budget constraints and political considerations set the Space Shuttꦦle up for disaster.

Pentagon's mysterious X-37B unmanned space drone set to launch again

The US Space Force’s mysterious X-37B unmanned drone is expected to soar into space once again, this time reaching new heights — as some speculate it may be🎶 used to.♚..

 Drug startup aims to cure blindness by de⛦veloping medications in space ℱ

Drug startup LambdaVision is shooting for the stars with an ambitious plan to develop the world's first cure for💫 genetic blindness -- from space. LambdaVis൩ion was founded in 2009 with...

 ཧ Artemis 3 moon landing likely ye🐟ars behind schedule, report finds

The Artemis program was started in 2017 with the goal of sen��ding astღronauts back to the Moon and possibly Mars but has faced delays since its inception.

North Korea says interference in its satellites would be declaration of war ജ

North Kꦜorea said it would mobilize its war deterrence if any attack🐈 against its strategic assets were imminent.

South♋ Korea boosts mili﷽tary surveillance after North claims spy satellite launch

 Th♕e suspension of a clause in the agreement will see South Korea stepping up milᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚitary surveillance along the border.

NASA's sexism couldn't keep the first women astronauts from taking off

In “🎀The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts," Loren Grush writes of the triumphs and tragedies of the pioneering space travelers.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin replacing CEO with outgoing Amazon exec: report

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is replacing its CEO Bob Smith with longtime Amazon executive Dave Limp, who planned toཧ retire from his hardware boss spot in Decemb𝕴er, according...

New crew for the space station launches𝓰 with four astronauts from four countries

Four astronauts from four countries rocketed to🐓ward the International Sp🤪ace Station on Saturday. 

India's successful moon landing another sign of the New Space Age

The world's l♉argest democracy reached the moon this week. Huzzah!

Mars colony could survive with 22 people — just don't bring these losers

 "Establishing a human settlement on Mars is an incredibly complex engineering problem," the researcheꦯrs wrote.

Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure

Russian officials had hoped the prestige mission would sho♒w they can still compete in space despite their post-Soviet decline and the extreme loss suffered in the Ukraine war.

Elon Musk's SpaceX turns profit after two years of losses: report

The company made $55 million in profit on🅘 $1.5 billion in revenue during the first quarter of this yea♉r, according to The Wall Street Journal.

NASA relౠinks with Voyager 2 after fears it would be offline for months

NASA has successfully "reestablished full communications" with Voyaﷺger 2, an interstellar deep space probe which the agency sent offline with a faulty command two weeks ago.

🏅 NASA loses c🔯ontact with deep space probe — the results could cost us 

Somebody really spacꦫed out on this one. 𝓡

OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1K peoplꦬe to a fꦺloating colony on Venus by 2050

G♛uillermo Söhnlein, who co-founded OceanGate, is also heading up an effort that'll allow up to 1,000 people to live in a floating, space station-like structure in Venus' atmosphere by the...