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<p>Kayak now has a baggage measurement tool to help you check if your carry-on bag fits the airline's requirements.&nbsp;</p>

Kayak’s luggage tool shows if your bag fits your flight

The feature uses augmented reality to scan your carry-on.

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<p>This illustration shows what the BFR system might look like.</p>

Elon Musk: SpaceX moon mission will be livestreamed in VR -- in 5 years or so

Yes, the launch will be in 2023 at the earliest, but it's never too soon to plan.

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<p>Elon Musk caught on film by National Geographic during the Falcon Heavy launch.</p>

SpaceX simplified: A quick guide to Elon Musk's space company

If you've heard something about BFR rockets, moon passengers and cities on Mars, but don't know the details, here's a brief rundown.

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<p>Scott Kelly knows a thing or two about space travel.</p>

NASA astronaut offers to ride along on SpaceX BFR moon mission

Retired astronaut Scott Kelly has cleared his schedule for 2023.

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<p>This photograph taken on February 7, 2017 shows male Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes feeding on sugar in its enclosure at National Environmental Agency (NEA) mosquitoes production facility in Singapore. Singapore is experimenting with using male Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes to control the insects population. The bacteria, which occurs naturally in most insects, renders mosquitos infertile and helps cap the population of the dengue-spreading insect. Despite having one of the highest standards of healthcare in Asia, dengue is endemic in hot and humid Singapore. / AFP / ROSLAN RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)</p>

Google's sister company fights mosquitoes with AI

A new sex-sorting technology will use sterile mosquitoes to stop the pests from breeding.

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Why SpaceX's billionaire space tourist is taking artists to the moon

SpaceX has its first moon tourist. Watch Yusaku Maezawa discuss his big plans for travelling to space.

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First SpaceX moon passenger Yusaku Maezawa: Everything you need to know

SpaceX is sending Yusaka Maezawa to the moon. So who exactly is he?

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<p>SpaceX will send its first passenger around the Moon in a Big Falcon Rocket (seen in its original form).</p>

Watch SpaceX reveal BFR mystery moon passenger

Yusaku Maezawa will take a trip aboard the Big Falcon Rocket, still in development.

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SpaceX reveals mystery moon passenger, and he's a billionaire

Elon Musk's SpaceX welcomes Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and an entourage of artists as its first BFR spaceship moon tourists.

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NASA's new planet hunting satellite shares 'first light' photo of space

Four cameras, billions of stars. The first image from NASA's TESS is stellar.

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<p>Can you see the Great Wall from here?</p>

See if you can find the Great Wall of China in this ISS image

A view from the International Space Station view puts the landmark into perspective.

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Watch Hurricane Florence unleash an epic waterspout

Now a tropical depression, Florence spawned an unreal-looking tower of whirling water.

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