astronaut

In Space, No One Can Smell Your Many, Many Farts

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In Space, No One Can Smell Your Many, Many Farts

Becoming an astronaut is a fairly romanticized career path, but there are a lot of less-than-romantic aspects to working 50 miles or more above the Earth’s surface. Case in point: just being in zero G makes the human body do all sorts of embarrassing things. A new story from the New York Times exhaustedly points … Read more

Virgin Galactic carries first tourists to the edge of Space

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Virgin Galactic carries first tourists to the edge of Space

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. carried its first private tourists to the edge of space, a long-awaited milestone in founder Richard Branson’s quest to build a “spaceline for Earth.” The VSS Unity craft reached space shortly before 9:30 a.m. local time Thursday, Virgin Galactic said on a livestream of the event, roughly an hour after it … Read more