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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg slams as "reckless" Russia's destruction of a satellite that created a debris cloud he said was dangerous to orbiting space stations. SOUNDBITE
The White House confirms that a national security threat raised by US lawmakers involves Russia developing an anti-satellite weapon. "I can confirm that it is related to an anti-satellite capability that Russia developing," National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tells reporters, adding however that there was "no immediate threat to anyone's safety." SOUNDBITE
Mexico City, Jun 21 (EFE) .- NASA tested Monday devices created by Mexican researchers on a suborbital flight (with a maximum altitude of 100 kilometers) that are key to the construction of a type of nanosatellite.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying two veteran NASA astronauts lifts off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a historic first private crewed flight to the International Space Station. IMAGES
NASA says it has given the green light to next week's launch of two astronauts aboard a SpaceX vessel -- the first crewed space flight to leave from US soil in nine years. "It it was a very, very clean review," says NASA associate administrator. "There's just the planned for work to get done, there's quite a bit of it, but we are ready to launch on Wednesday May 27th at 4.33pm." SOUNDBITE
Elon Musk's spacecraft has successfully launched into space carrying human sperm.