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Inside the €42,000 flatpack house billionaire Elon Musk calls home

Billionaire Elon Musk is reported to be the "top secret customer" who lives in one of these 34 square-metre units.

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Boeing scraps a key test space flight of its crew capsule

The launch of Boeing's crew capsule is facing more delays following a disastrous attempt in 2019 and now this latest cancellation.

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Blue Origin protest over SpaceX's lunar lander NASA contract rejected

The Blue Origin founder said NASA was required to make multiple awards after Elon Musk's SpaceX was awarded a €2.5 billion contract.

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Musk's SpaceX lands NASA launch contract for Jupiter moon mission

SpaceX lands NASA launch contract for mission to Jupiter's moon Europa

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Can Europe compete with SpaceX in the satellite space race?

SpaceX has forced Europe’s space industry to come up with out-of-this-world ideas to compete in the satellite launching sector.

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Squid in space could help NASA keep astronauts fit and healthy

NASA researchers say the squid's relationship with the bacteria that make them glow could hold the key to keeping astronaut immune systems strong.

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Jeff Bezos will man the first space flight of the Blue Origin rocket

Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos will fly to the edge of space with his brother on the first flight of the Blue Origin rocket.

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Watch: SpaceX lands Starship rocket at fifth time of trying

The previous four attempted test flights of the rocket SpaceX wants to use to send people to the moon and Mars ended in fiery explosions.

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Company producing oxygen from Moon soil is making Mars missions easier

Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are determined to get human beings to the Moon and Mars. This company, which has found a way to produce oxygen from soil on the Moon, may help them to get us there.

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Astronauts return to Earth after 6.5-hour SpaceX flight

“It's not very often you get to wake up on the space station and go to sleep in Houston."

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The most striking images from this week's top stories

The key stories of the week, captured by photographers around the world.

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SpaceX rocket lifts-off as French astronaut heads to ISS

The SpaceX launch, delayed from Thursday due to poor weather, will deliver four astronauts to the International Space Station with a recycled capsule and rocket.

USA

NASA picks SpaceX to build lander for next mission to the moon

NASA chose Elon Musk's SpaceX to build the next lander that will carry astronauts to the moon.

Japan

Japanese billionaire seeks eight creatives for paid-for moon flight

Yusaku Maezawa and his guests could become the first lunar voyagers since the last Apollo mission in 1972.

France

‘My only chance is with Elon Musk’: Quadruple amputee dreams of space

Philippe Croizon, a quadruple amputee that has since become an accomplished athlete, dreams to become the first handicapped person in outer space.

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Test flight for SpaceX's Starship ends in spectacular fashion... again

SpaceX’s second full test flight of its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship ended in another fiery crash landing on Tuesday.

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US billionaire to pay for first all-civilian space flight this year

One of the spots on the SpaceX's multi-day flight that will orbit Earth will be awarded via a lottery system.

Ecotech

This groundbreaking rocket uses carbon neutral biofuel

The bio-derived fuel was created using a renewable ingredient commonly found on farms.

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2020 wasn't a great year on Earth - but what about in space?

With so much of the planet's population stuck at home for large parts of the year, 2020 has at least been a good one for looking up at the sky and taking in the wonders of the cosmos.

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Rocketship bursts into flames as it tries to land vertically

Wednesday's 6 1/2-minute test flight was the most ambitious to date. It didn't end as planned, however.