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Katy Perry, Gayle King to fly to space on Blue Origin’s all-women flight

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Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin to cut 10% of its workforce

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A caravan transports a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket first stage past the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Florida. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to debut new rocket in SpaceX challenge

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United Airlines strikes deal with Starlink to give free inflight Wi-Fi

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Billionaire Jared Isaacman completes world’s first-ever private space walk

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SpaceX is about to send women farther into space than ever before

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SpaceX may have to rescue stranded NASA astronauts after Boeing blunder

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Musk is moving SpaceX and X to Texas

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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 13: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Nova-C lander for the IM-1 mission stands at pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center after the scheduled launch of the rocket at 12:57 a.m. EDT on February 14, 2024 was postponed due to a technical issue in Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States on February 13, 2024. Liftoff is now set for 1:05 a.m. on February 15. The lander, built by Intuitive Machines, will attempt to deliver science payloads to the surface of the moon for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty Images)

SpaceX rocket blasts off carrying a U.S. firm’s spacecraft on a mission to land on the moon and end America’s 50-year lull

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ROME, ITALY – DECEMBER 15: Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc and X (formerly Twitter) Ceo speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by militants of Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), on December 15, 2023 in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing political party organised a four-day political festival in the Italian capital. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

SpaceX workers who criticized CEO Elon Musk for being a ‘distraction and embarrassment’ were illegally fired in retaliation, NLRB alleges

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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES – OCTOBER 6: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the first two demonstration satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation lifts off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States on October 6, 2023. (Photo by Paul Hennesy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Amazon takes on Elon Musk’s Starlink by launching its first satellites that will beam high-speed internet service to Earth

By Loren Grush and Bloomberg

Dave Limp, senior vice president of devices and services for Amazon.com Inc., speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. The summit draws attendees from across the globe to explore what’s next in tech, business, science and society. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceflight company gets a veteran Amazon executive as a new CEO amid setbacks and delays

By Loren Grush, Matt Day, and others

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, are aboard the SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, and are headed to the International Space Station.<br />
(Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

SpaceX is barred from launching missions from its Texas base until it makes 63 changes after a recent rocket went haywire

By Alan Levin, Loren Grush, and others

(From L) Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, wearing SpaceX spacesuits wave as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-7 mission launch, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on August 26, 2023. The SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station, scheduled to launch on August 26, 2023, will mark the seventh operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the eleventh overall crewed orbital flight. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

SpaceX spent ‘a month or so’ battling one key issue before its latest Crew Dragon launch: Sticky valves in life support

By Loren Grush and Bloomberg

PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 16: Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. Elon Musk is visiting Paris for the VivaTech show where he gives a conference in front of 4,000 technology enthusiasts. He also took the opportunity to meet Bernard Arnaud, CEO of LVMH and the French President. Emmanuel Macron, who has already met Elon Musk twice in recent months, hopes to convince him to set up a Tesla battery factory in France, his pioneer company in electric cars. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Justice Department sues SpaceX, claiming it discouraged refugees and asylum-seekers from applying

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