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Thursday 26 November 2020
Branson says he has increased his fitness training by playing tennis four times a day.
His Russian captain suspected that 9cm was “too much elongation”. He was right.
He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker’s jetpack.
Peggy and two of her colleagues landed in Kazakhstan this morning.
A former Nasa astronaut talks to us about his time in space, and the goal of humans reaching Mars.
The second man on the moon was there as part of a tourist group.
Colonel Eileen Collins was speaking at a Medical Council event in Dublin.
Tim Peake, the first Briton to visit the ISS, phoned the wrong number from space yesterday.
The 43-year-old said he would call his relatives from space to wish them a merry Christmas.
The timelapse was taken during a sunrise.
They launched a crowdfunding campaign today and hope the ‘sexploration’ will begin in 2016.
Before you can become an astronaut – you need to learn how to be an aquanaut.
Is there higher praise than that? We don’t think so.
Advertising done right.
Get your glasses out.
Every photo should have more dogs.
“Our world is a better place than we often claim it to be.”
… and he’s brought his guitar.
Many of the women finalists scored higher in training than their male counterparts.
A spacecraft arrived carrying three new astronauts and supplies yesterday.
It’s been captured in Vine format, something astronauts on the ISS are mad for these days.
Astronaut Reid Wiseman is on the case.
A raft of sites have been taken by the ‘Waterford Whispers’ report on North Korea’s out-of-this-world claims — including our own Sunday World.
The astronaut will spend the next few days as a ‘tourist’ as part of a promotional drive aimed at reaching his million-plus Twitter followers.
They previously played together while Cmdr Hadfield was still aboard the ISS.
He’ll be signing copies of his new book in Dublin next month.
The Voyager 1 probe was launched in 1977 on a mission to explore the outer planets. It will continue to drift across the galaxy, carrying discs of greetings from planet Earth…
He’ll need to brush up on his Gaeilge.
Here’s the full correspondence, as revealed by Dexter’s dad.
Seán Corcoran, a second year Software Engineering student from Finglas, will battle it out against 200 other potential astronauts from across Ireland and Britain for the chance to board a space flight next year.
“The smell is like an old friend.” Can you guess what he went for?
With photos shared on social media and down-to-earth video interviews, Commander Chris Hadfield is surely inspiring many young people to become astronauts and to work in other areas of the space industry, writes Colm Quinn.
Last Day on Mars by Ruairí Robinson stars Liev Schreiber and Romola Garai and has been selected for the prestigious Director’s Fortnight at Cannes.
Here are our nine favourite questions and responses from the International Space Station
Engineer, Norah Patten, has always been fascinated with space and has even made a career out of it. Now she wants to be Ireland’s first female astronaut. Here she tells us why.
We’re not half bad looking from far away…
Paolo Nespoli has been to space twice – and thinks that it won’t be long before space tourism is a reality.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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