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Office space firm IWG courts investors with plan to raise £315m

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Office space firm IWG courts investors with plan to raise £315m and take advantage of knock-down property prices By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 27 May 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 27 May 2020 Office space firm IWG last night launched a £315million shares placing and invited small shareholders to take … Read more

ASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley arrive at Kennedy Space Center in white Tesla

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NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, bringing them one-step closer to making history. The pair were chauffeured into the facility by a white Tesla Model X with NASA stickers placed on the front doors and decals on the windshield form each of the space … Read more

Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu may be chunks of the same giant space rock

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Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu that both orbit between Earth and Mars may be chunks of the same giant space rock that was smashed apart in a collision Mathematical modelling suggests a possible relationship between the asteroids Astronomers at University of Arizona and Laboratoire Lagrange made prediction But tests on samples from both rocks will be … Read more

Video footage shows space junk fireball over Australia

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Stunning fireball seen over Australia ‘was the remnants of a Russian rocket taking a missile warning system into space’, expert claims Video footage shows orange fireball lighting up the southern Australian skies  Experts say it was an object from the launch of a Russian intelligence satellite The Kremlin’s new constellation of satellites will trace ballistic missile … Read more

ISS commander celebrates ‘gigantic’ SpaceX launch as ‘step toward future’ of American space travel

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International Space Station Commander Chris Cassidy has spoken out about the significance of NASA‘s upcoming space flight, which will be the first launched from US soil since the space shuttle program ended. ‘It’s a gigantic deal,’ says Cassidy during a live interview from space as he spoke about the Wednesday launch that will bring astronauts Bob … Read more

Bad weather threatens Elon Musk’s historic manned Space X launch

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Poor weather has threatened the Space X launch on Wednesday which is set to send two American astronauts to the International Space Station in the first crewed mission from US soil in nine years.   The scheduled takeoff has only a 40 per cent chance of liftoff due to a thick cloud cover and the potential … Read more

Oxford students doing exams on videolink say invigilators should NOT see their ‘private space’

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Students doing Oxford exams on videolink from their bedrooms complain that invigilators and tutors should NOT be allowed to see their ‘private space’ Oxford classics students say room sweeps and web cams are ‘intrusive’ Faculty confirmed exams would be taken over Microsoft Teams starting Friday Invigilators will undergo mandatory ‘camera sweep of the room’ before test … Read more

North Korea admits that Kim Jong Un can’t bend space and time after decades of myth making

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The North Korean state newspaper has admitted that the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, cannot bend space and time after years of mythologising him. The admission from the Rodong Sinmun newspaper is the latest sign that the country is moving away from propagandizing myths about its leaders, and is instead taking an approach that focuses … Read more

NASA renames deep space telescope after ‘the mother of the Hubble Telescope’ Nancy Roman

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Nancy Grace Roman was one of the first women to work at NASA and a central figures in the development of the Hubble Telescope. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 16, 1925. As a child, she was drawn to the study of outer space.’I was just fascinated.’ Roman said in a short NASA … Read more