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    Actor Tom Hanks was offered a coveted seat on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket, but the Hollywood star turned down the opportunity because of the price.

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    • Hanks said when asked by Kimmel about the Blue Origin invite. "It costs like $28 million or something like that. And I'm doing good, Jimmy — I'm doing good — but I ain't paying $28 million. https://t.co/PXwrmV6yJ7 #space #blueorigin #TomHanks

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    The Kármán line (or von Karman line) is an attempt to define a boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. It was defined to be 100 kilometres (54 nautical miles; 62 miles; 330,000 feet) above Earth’s mean sea level. It was established in the 1960s by the Fédération aéronautique internationale (FAI), an international record-keeping body for aeronautics.[2][3] Various countries and…

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    The rise of space tourism and plans to send people to Mars are prompting new studies of the health effects of space flight. Talha Burki reports.

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    • As you read this, #BlueOrigin's rocket is launching into space. But what are the health effects of space flight? 🚀 Talha Burki reports on the studies prompted by the rise of a new era of space travel: "space tourism". Read https://t.co/EVWd62sHVl.