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Shouldn’t NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration already be building a moon-base with Elon Musk at SpaceX as well as Russia and China? Congress should fund space travel.

RUSSIA and China are joining forces as they prepare to sign a historic deal to build the first moon base after they snubbed the US.

The two countries are to collaborate on the international lunar structure, which was thought up by China — the latest build in the space-race against America.

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NASA’s position as the leader of space exploration is in trouble.

SpaceX completed another monster equity funding round last week, sources said, sending the valuation of Elon Musk’s company to about $74 billion.

Gates wants to focus on fixing problems on earth instead of traveling into space.

Gates said he’d rather spend money on measles vaccines than traveling to space in a rocket.

NASA PICKS SPACEX FOR a $99 MILLION mission😲😲

The founder of a bootstrapped Seattle startup who launched his company on Kickstarter is looking to hitch a ride to space with a tech billionaire, and he’s using a video on Twitter to plead his case.

A veteran #Falcon9 is set to become @SpaceX’s 3rd most-flown booster later tonight, as B1059 launches for the 6th time.

NASA, in collaboration with other leading space agencies, aims to send its first human missions to Mars in the early 2030s, while companies like SpaceX may do so even earlier. Astronauts on Mars will need oxygen, water, food, and other consumables. These will need to be sourced from Mars, because importing them from Earth would be impractical in the long term. In Frontiers in Microbiology, scientists show for the first time that Anabaena cyanobacteria can be grown with only local gases, water, and other nutrients and at low pressure. This makes it much easier to develop sustainable biological life support systems.

Thanks to the rise of commercial spaceflight, anyone with a little luck will be able to fly into space, all to serve a good cause.