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56-year-old Felix Baumgartner became a household name thanks to his extreme skydiving stunts.
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The mission saw the firm's first ever space tourists fly 55 miles up into the sky during a flight lasting around 60 minutes.
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The veteran actor, 90, was one of four passengers to reach the edge of space during today's Blue Origin flight.
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Captain Kirk himself - William Shatner - has confirmed that he will be venturing to the edge of space next week.
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The first ever manned launch of Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft proved a major success.
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The entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Galactic soared into the heavens today aboard the VSS Unity.
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The two private space firms are gearing up for their first commercial flights, but who will get there first ?
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The Amazon founder and his brother will be aboard the first human flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard.
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Sir Richard Branson's dream of sending tourists up in to space is now one step closer to becoming a reality.
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It turns out that the devastating bombing raids of World War II damaged more than just targets on the ground.
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Private space firm Blue Origin has completed a successful test launch of its rocket and crew capsule.
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A NASA balloon experiment has picked up sounds that wouldn't seem out of place in an X-Files episode.