EXPLAINER: How Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos will soar into space
• When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board.
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• When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board.
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• The Perseids meteor shower has been called “The best meteor shower of the year.” It peaks in mid-August.
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• Richard Branson started Virgin Galactic 17 years ago to make space travel possible for his generation. This weekend he’ll be on its first fully crewed test flight to space, beating Jeff Bezos by days.
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• This week on NewsNight, as the Kennedy Space Center marks exactly a decade since the last Shuttle mission, the panel looks back at the iconic fleet.
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• Early risers across the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see an eclipse Thursday morning when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun.
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• In Mercury Rising, historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the U.S. space program, when Cold War fears ruled, and no one was sure Glenn would survive America’s first orbital flight.
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• A curious finding last year in the atmosphere of Venus has some scientists thinking one of our closest planetary neighbors could hold signs of life.
A team of researchers found traces of phosphine gas using a ground based telescope in Hawaii. On Earth, this gas is created by the decaying of organic material which is considered a “biosignature” — a material associated with the chemistry of life.
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