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Oliver Daemen is the youngest person to fly to space in Blue Origin spacecraft

Daemen is not the anonymous bidder who paid $28 million for a ticket in an online auction as they will fly on a future mission due to a scheduling conflict.

Jeff Bezos announces 82-year-old female pilot Wally Funk will launch into space with him

She will accompany Bezos, his brother and an auction winner will be the first people to fly in a Blue Origin rocket and capsule.

Virgin Galactic overcomes final hurdle, gets FAA's nod to launch customers to space

Spokeswoman Aleanna Crane said that there are no details on possible flight dates for Sir Richard Branson’s company.

SpaceX, Axiom Space sign deal for three private Crew Dragon missions to the ISS

The three missions - Ax-2, Ax-3 and Ax-4 - will be conducted six months apart and will all last for around eight days.

Virgin Galactic reaches edge of Earth's atmosphere for the first time with two pilots

Founder Sir Richard Branson said this brings the roughly 15-year-old venture tantalizingly close to commercial flights for tourists.

Training of first private crew to go to the ISS will begin soon, say Axiom Space and NASA

The mission dubbed Ax-1 is to last around 10 days, said Axiom Space president and CEO Michael Suffredini.

Hundreds of space tourists in training to experience minutes of weightlessness in space

National Aerospace Training and Research Center conducts training program that lasts two days and includes classroom instruction and tests in a centrifuge.

Inspiration4: All-civilian crew on SpaceX's first privately-funded flight to orbit, revealed

The two new passengers are Sian Proctor, a community college educator and Chris Sembroski, a former Air Force missile man.

10 important dates to remember in the history of space exploration from 1957 to now

Space is the final frontier that man continues to explore and study, from the first man on the Moon to a rover on Mars.

SpaceX announces its new plans to send people on a tour around the Moon

It will use its massive Big Falcon Rocket, designed to carry people into deep space.