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Virgin Galactic joins the reality TV space race

Space

Virgin Galactic joins the reality TV space race

Virgin Galactic has announced a Survivor-like series that will send the winner to space. It joins a growing list of space-based reality TV show coming to a box near you

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Earth's love handles keep the satellites from falling

Space

Earth's love handles keep the satellites from falling

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SpaceX gets a rival – and tests novel reusable rocket

Space

SpaceX gets a rival – and tests novel reusable rocket

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Brake away: Rethinking how we land on Mars

Space

Brake away: Rethinking how we land on Mars

Features

Apollo astronauts still have a problem - 45 years on

Space

Apollo astronauts still have a problem - 45 years on

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Stars' escape velocity shows how to exit the Milky Way

Space

Stars' escape velocity shows how to exit the Milky Way

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Date glitch delays Cygnus's rendezvous with ISS

Space

Date glitch delays Cygnus's rendezvous with ISS

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Space

Voyager 1: still looking forward after all these years

Opinion

NASA moon probe steadies itself, heads for lunar orbit

Space

NASA moon probe steadies itself, heads for lunar orbit

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Virgin Galactic ship shakes its space-flight feathers

Space

Virgin Galactic ship shakes its space-flight feathers

On its second rocket-powered flight, Richard Branson's SpaceShipTwo flew longer and higher than it has done before, and tested a safety mechanism called feathering

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Space

Gravity movie shows the dark side of space flight

CultureLab

Space

NASA orbiter will use laser to bring broadband to moon

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Space

NASA is turning science fiction into fact

Opinion

Space

Japanese probe to sniff out why planets lose gases

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