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• Australian astronaut offered place on breakthrough space flight

  25-05-2026 12:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The European Space Agency has formally extended the offer for Australia's Katherine Bennell-Pegg to join a mission that would take her to the International Space Station, but the place is not guaranteed.
  
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• China launches astronauts into space amid new race to Moon

  25-05-2026 05:40 via abc.net.au
  
  China has launched three astronauts into space, including one who will stay for a year for a study of the long-term impacts on a human in orbit, ahead of Beijing's goal of a crewed Moon landing by 2030.
  
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• China launches Shenzhou-23 with astronauts aboard

  25-05-2026 05:00 via abc.net.au
  
  China’s Shenzhou-23 spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre with three astronauts aboard.
  
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