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  EMERGING TECH Axiom Space raises $130M to advance its commercial space station plans BY  MARIA DEUTSCHER SHARE Axiom Space Inc., a Houston startup building a commercial space station, today  said  it has raised $130 million in fresh funding from a group of investors led by C5 Capital. The Series B round  reportedly  values the startup at well over $1 billion.  Axiom Space launched in 2016 with the goal of deploying the world’s first privately funded commercial space station into orbit. Under the first phase of the undertaking, the startup will work with NASA to attach custom modules to the International Space Station. Those modules will expand the amount of usable space available to astronauts and, a few years after deployment, will detach and form the basis of Axiom’s planned commercial station. Axiom received approval from NASA for the project last year. The first of the modules is set to launch as early as 2024 and could be ready to begin operatin...

  Virgin Galactic aims to rocket to space as soon as Saturday Eric Mack     20 hrs ago Donald Trump Fumes Over Bruce Castor Impeachment Performance That May… Trump ‘beyond angry’ with impeachment defense team’s showing: sources Virgin Galactic aims to rocket to space as soon as Saturday © Provided by CNET  VMS Eve and SpaceShipTwo Unity Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's nascent space tourism company , plans to make its latest run at orbit as soon as Saturday, Feb. 13 from New Mexico's Spaceport America. Virgin is working to complete a few more test flights before Branson takes his own long-awaited orbital joyride, followed by paying customers who are coughing up somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars to become astronauts for a day. The company  attempted a test flight  in December, but a computer on board the spacecraft SpaceShipTwo Unity aborted ignition of the rocket motor. The Virgin Galactic team now says it's correc...

  Virgin Galactic targeting Feb. 13 for next spaceflight Mike Wall     1 hr ago This Face Mask Mistake is Worse Than No Mask at All Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals She Had Vaccine Dose on Day of Riots… Virgin Galactic targeting Feb. 13 for next spaceflight © Provided by Space  Virgin Galactic's latest SpaceShipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity, is seen after landing at Spaceport America, New Mexico, following a launch abort during a flight test on Dec . 12, 2020. Virgin Galactic  will reach space again next weekend, if all goes according to plan. The company announced today (Feb. 1) that it's targeting Feb. 13 for the next test flight of its latest suborbital  SpaceShipTwo vehicle , VSS Unity, with further opportunities available throughout February. It will be Unity's third spaceflight overall and the first to lift off from New Mexico's Spaceport America, Virgin Galactic's commercial hub.  Unity's previous two test flights, which occurred in December 2018 and F...