Blue Origin founder reads through student letters sent to space aboard the New Shepard rocket. FOX Business' Cheryl Casone with more.
Several thousand students’ postcards took a journey to space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard reusable rocket.
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A video posted on Twitter by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos shows the Amazon CEO reading postcards students all over the world sent to be part of the 11-minute unmanned suborbital space mission.
Quite a lot has been going on:
SpaceX Is Sending Hemp and Coffee to the International Space Station Next Year | Travel + Leisure
The International Space Station will soon receive a shipment of hemp and coffee seeds — all for research purposes, of course.
The seeds, being transported by a SpaceX cargo flight in March, are headed into space so researchers can study how zero gravity affects the metabolic pathways of the plants, according to agricultural technology company Front Range Biosciences (FRB).
Europe is sending a robot to clean up space. Why is the junk there in the first place?
A four-armed robot, developed by Swiss startup ClearSpace, will latch onto debris before diving back down to Earth, where both machine and junk will "burn up in the atmosphere," according to the ESA.
The robot's mission will target a cone-shaped part of an ESA rocket that was left in space in 2013. If all goes well, follow-up missions will target larger objects, before eventually trying to remove multiple pieces of junk at once.
Space investing becoming real: Morgan Stanley hosts second summit
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Attendance at Morgan Stanley's now annual space summit is only one barometer, but it shows that investor interest in the extraterrestrial became serious this year.
"We tripled the investor count" from last year's conference , Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas told CNBC about Tuesday's event. "We ran out of room."
Not to change the topic here:
Exclusive: Q&A with the VP - POLITICO
— Vice President Mike Pence talks with POLITICO about the Space Force, the 2024 moon mission and what the National Space Council is focusing on in 2020
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— The Space Force is closer to becoming a reality , but some worry it will make space more dangerous.
HOW TO GET CONGRESS TO PAY FOR THE MOON MISSION? That's a question we posed to Vice President Mike Pence earlier this week during a call. And in his answer, he didn't talk about about negotiating with Democrats or lobbying lawmakers.
U.S. Government Looks to Back Cutting-Edge Space Tech as Funding Gaps Remain - Karma
The U.S. government has shifted its priorities toward supporting private space companies, minimizing its own risks and saving billions on a bet that a single administration can accomplish anything in a short amount of time.
"We just don't have the funding to take it all the way to market and so we absolutely need to be partnered up with other investors who are willing to look over our shoulders," she said at a webinar held by Boundless Impact Investing this week.
Human Hibernation Could Be the Key to Future Space Travel - Ride by Kelley Blue Book
A new report by the European Space Agency reveals that we are closer to human hibernated space travel than most might think. In fact, the ESA predicts that the suspended transport mode, typically associated with sci-fi flicks like "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Alien," and "Passengers," could actually be possible in 20 years.
The reality of traveling safely in space in some deep, suspended coma-like state until you reach a final destination might be right around the corner.
Lil BUB's owner plans to send her remains into space - Indiana Daily Student
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