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Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos walks with crew mate Wally Funk at the landing pad after they flew on Blue Origin's inaugural flight to the edge of space, in the nearby town of Van Horn, Texas, US July 20, 2021. Photo: Reuters
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Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in exchange for moon mission contract

In a letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Bezos said Blue Origin would waive payments in the government's current fiscal year and the next ones after that up to $2 billion

The Falcon Heavy generates more than five million pounds of thrust (22 million Newtons) at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft . Photo : BSS/AFP
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NASA selects SpaceX for mission to Jupiter moon Europa

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NASA, European Space Agency join forces on climate change

The image uses observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and incorporates data from two very different astronomical investigations. Photo :NASA via Hindustan Times
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'Ready for Fourth of July?': Nasa's Hubble telescope shows off cosmic fireworks

A squid is shown at a lab in Honolulu on June 11, 2021. Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid were raised at the University of Hawaii's Kewalo Marine Laboratory and were blasted into space earlier this month on a SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station. Photo :APA via UNB
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NASA sends squid from Hawaii into space for research

Data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter is used in an undated composite image of the planet Venus. Photo: Reuters
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NASA's Venus missions to probe divergent fate of Earth's hothouse sister planet

The image shows the galaxy cluster ACO S 295 captured by Nasa's Hubble telescope. Photo: Hindustan Times
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‘Let your mind wander’: Nasa’s latest share showcases unexplored galaxies light years away from Earth

An undated artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters
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Faraway NASA probe detects the eerie hum of interstellar space

FILE PHOTO: The shadow of NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity is seen during its second flight, captured by its black-and-white navigation camera April 22, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS
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Nasa captures sound of chopper blades on Mars

Nasa slams China over irresponsible standards regarding space debris
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Nasa slams China over irresponsible standards regarding space debris

US Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) speaks at a campaign event before being joined by Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and former US President Barack Obama in Miami, Florida, US November 2, 2018. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/
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Bill Nelson, head of NASA, hails ‘new day in space’

The astronauts spent six months on the ISS. Photo: NASA via BBC
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Nasa astronauts splash-land on Earth in SpaceX capsule after ISS mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on a NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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Astronauts leave ISS, begin return journey to Earth on SpaceX craft