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Spaceflight Blue Origin to fly first wheelchair user to space The NS-37 flight will also carry former SpaceX rocket scientist Hans Koenigsmann. Read More -##-- China's 1st reusable rocket explodes on landing After making a successful reentry, the rocket's first stage booster appeared to lose an engine during its landing burn. Read More

SpaceX Crew 12 shakeup SpaceX's Crew 12 mission, slated for February, seems to already be off to a rocky start as Oleg Artemyev, of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, was pulled from SpaceX's next astronaut mission for violating U.S. national security regulations, according to a media report. We have the full story on our website. In other news, if you're in one of these 15 states, you could see the northern lights this evening, time travel seems to be faster on Mars than Earth and NASA has found 'space gum' and sugars 'crucial to life' in samples from the asteroid Bennu.  We have all that and more for your daily read.  Keep looking up, Kenna Content Manager, Space.com

Cosmonaut pulled from SpaceX crew 12 for security breach "My contacts confirm that a violation occurred and an interdepartmental investigation has been launched." Read More

For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to ISS It's the first time all the spacecraft docking ports on the current configuration of the ISS have been occupied. Read More