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Japan wants people to virtually embody avatars orbiting in space

The Japanese space programme has partnered with an airline to build humanoid robots to assist astronauts and allow people on the ground to experience space

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Planet of the Apes

Space

Don't miss: Apes get ideas, hole becomes art, games lose boundaries

Culture

A hole in the ISS

Did someone deliberately sabotage the International Space Station?

Analysis

Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man

Space

People calling Ryan Gosling's First Man unpatriotic are stuck in 1969

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US Vice President making a speech in front of a NASA logo, an American flag and a picture of the moon

Comment

Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age

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Keri Bean

Space

How to drive the slowest vehicle in the solar system - on Mars

Features

Astronaut on a treadmill on the ISS

Space

Doctors will grow human tissue on the International Space Station

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The view from the ISS

Space

NASA's plans to end the ISS could put its Mars missions in danger

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Where does space begin? Here's why it's closer than you think

Space

Where does space begin? Here's why it's closer than you think

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UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021

Space

UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021

The UK is funding the development of spaceports in Scotland and Cornwall, but plans for US firms to launch small satellites could run afoul of US export laws

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Life

Don't miss: amateur surgery, aqua-activism and a twisted Turing test

Culture

Space

Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity

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Space

Australia is launching a space agency, but what will it do?

Analysis

Space

Colonists could use genetically modified bacteria to settle Mars

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