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American aerospace giant Boeing launches its Starliner capsule for the International Space Station in a critical uncrewed test flight that follows years of failures and false starts. The Orbital Test Flight 2 (OFT-2) mission blasted off at 6:54 pm Eastern Time (2254 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the spaceship fixed atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. IMAGES
A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying Americans Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, and Italian Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, docks at the International Space Station, where they are greeted by another crew already aboard the ISS.
Ax-1 crew members Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe arrive at the international space station after lifting off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida the previous day.
The first fully private mission docks at the International Space Station. A four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space blasted off from Florida on Friday. NASA has hailed the three-way partnership with Axiom and SpaceX as a key step towards commercializing the region of space known as "Low Earth Orbit", leaving the agency to focus on more ambitious voyages deeper into the cosmos. IMAGES
An Israeli start-up, which studies data on brain activity, has developed the device which will be tested in orbit by astronauts to monitor changes in brain activity in space.View on euronews
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