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Jeff Bezos is quizzed on ’emotional’ rocket ride and economics of space flight

By Jack Jenkins — November 11, 2021
(RNS) — ‘It really is such a change in perspective that shows you, in a very powerful and emotional way, just how fragile this Earth is,’ Bezos said of his recent trip to space.

From Apollo 8 to SpaceIL, how to celebrate Shabbat, Ramadan and Christmas in space

By Emily McFarlan Miller and Jack Jenkins — July 19, 2019
(RNS) — From NASA's Apollo missions to SpaceIL's recent moonshot, Christmas to Ramadan, humans have found ways to practice their beliefs while touching the heavens.

Tiny Torah travels from hell on earth into outer space

By Lauren Markoe — June 27, 2012

(RNS) A new documentary follows a tiny Torah -- smuggled into a concentration camp and entrusted to a young boy, then taken to space by Israel's first astronaut -- from hell on earth to space. By Lauren Markoe.

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