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Inspiration4's Hayley Arceneaux will be youngest American in space and 1st spaceflyer with a prosthesis

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Inspiration4's Hayley Arceneaux will be youngest American in space and 1st spaceflyer with a prosthesis

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Hayley Arceneaux is a physician assistant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, for which Inspiration4 is raising funds for, and is will make two historic space firsts.

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Spaceflight Inc. unveils rideshare payloads for lunar flyby on private moon lander mission in 2022

While the Intuitive Machines Nova C-lander is en route to the moon in late 2022, a rideshare from Spaceflight Inc. will carry payloads on a lunar flyby.

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Spaceflight

The private Inspiration4 astronauts on SpaceX's Dragon may have an epic view … from the toilet

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The four Inspiration4 civilian astronauts will have an epic view from SpaceX's zero-g loo.

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How astronaut blood could help build a Mars colony

A new study suggests an intriguing possibility on the building front: Hardy bricks can be made by combining lunar or Martian dirt with a protein found in human blood.

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Science & Astronomy

Distant 'Requiem' supernova will be visible again in 2037, astronomers predict

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The supernova is a result of a stellar explosion some 10 billion light-years away and was last visible to Hubble Space Telescope in 2016, thanks to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

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Tropical Storm Nicholas batters Texas coast after making landfall as hurricane

Tropical Storm Nicholas drenched Texas and parts of Louisiana Tuesday (Sept. 14), dumping more than 10 inches of rain within hours of making landfall as a category 1 hurricane.

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SpaceX

SpaceX lofts 51 Starlink internet satellites in the constellation's 1st West Coast launch

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One of SpaceX's oldest rockets launched on a historic 10th flight, carrying the first stack of Starlink satellites into space in more than two months before sticking a landing at sea to cap the successful mission.

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Hayley Arceneaux to inspire children of St. Jude with Inspiration4 mission to space

Inspiration4's Haley Arceneaux's life changed quickly in 2021. In January, she was a physician assistant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, working on the front lines of the pandemic. Now, she's going to space.

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From Space Camp to space, Inspiration4's Chris Sembroski readies for trip of a lifetime

From high school when he would spend nights stargazing on the roof of the building to his days at college, building and launching model rockets, Chris Sembroski is no stranger to space. Now he's headed there.

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