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In this handout image provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Expedition 28 flight engineer, waits at an International Space Station's pressurized mating adapter (PMA-2) docked to the space shuttle Atlantis, as the station's robotic system moves the failed pump module (out of frame) over to the spacewalking astronaut and the shuttle's cargo bay during a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk July 12, 2011 in space.

NASA Opens International Space Station to Private Visitors, With a Hefty Price Tag

Private space travel will begin as early as 2020, but for a hefty price. NA...

Private space travel will begin as early as 2020, but for a hefty price. NASA announced Friday that it would open the International Space Station to private individuals and more commercial business at roughly $35,000...

Yusaku Maezawa, the chief executive of Zozo, speaks at an event in Tokyo, Japan on July 3, 2018.

SpaceX Introduces Japanese Billionaire as First Private Passenger to Fly Around the Moon

The billionaire entrepreneur plans to orbit the moon as early as 2023

Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and his identical twin brother Mark Kelly, pose for a photograph Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.

Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Space and Now His DNA Is Different From His Identical Twin's

About 7% of the genetic changes have remained in the two years since he ret...

About 7% of the genetic changes have remained in the two years since he returned to Earth

Mission specialist Piers J. Sellers participates in the mission's third and final spacewalk July 13, 2006.

Americans Just Took on Russia in Outer Space's First Badminton Game

Playing the game required special "space rules"

In this handout provided by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, dark, narrow streaks on the slopes of Hale Crater, are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on surface of present-day Mars, reported on September 28, 2015.

Scientists Have Discovered Massive Ice Sheets on Mars

The water they contain could be a useful resource for future astronauts

Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, speaks at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, California, U.S., August 27, 2017.

Elon Musk Just Revealed More About His Plan to Colonize Mars

"Dawn and dusk sky are blue on Mars and day sky is red"

The Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit.

'Countdown': Apollo 10, a Mission That Almost Ended in Catastrophe

How did this tin can spacecraft survive a near-fatal crisis?