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Formula 1 – Bahrain Qualifying: Live timing and updates as Christian Horner sits at pit wall following crisis talks with FIA chief Mohammed Ben Sulayem with drivers vying for opening pole position of the season
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Space tourism: Meet the companies vying to be the first to launch commercial trips
With missions to the International Space Station (ISS) now the norm and Elon Musk talking about going to Mars, it’s often hard to imagine that just 65 years ago no human had ever been to space.
For 300,000 years we walked the Earth but it wasn’t until 1961 that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to escape the confines of our planet.
Now, five decades on, space tourism companies are springing up everywhere with promises to take ordinary
‘Awe-inspiring’ properties vying to be Grand Designs: House of the Year
They’re billed as the most ‘awe-inspiring’ homes that have made the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)’ House of the Year shortlist… and the second episode of Grand Designs: House of the Year did not disappointment with a remarkable set of homes.
In the second programme of the series, airing tonight on Channel 4, Kevin and his co-presenters, architect Damion Burrows, Natasha Huq and design expert Michelle Ogundehin, visited five properties battling it out for a place on the
Meet the hopeful astronauts vying to be the first WOMAN to walk on the moon
It has been more than half a century since humans first walked on the moon, with Neil Armstrong uttering those immortal words: ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’.
Eleven more Americans followed, including Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard and Eugene Cernan, but all of them were men.
Now, NASA is planning to land the first woman on the moon in a little over three years’ time and has whittled down the list to just nine candidates.