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Surprise space toy inside: Kinder Joy, the sweet treat with a bonus toy inside, now has a new space collection. Launched ahead of World Space Week, the toys include rovers, rocketships and astronauts that interact with an augmented reality app. Kinder Joy teamed with Alyssa Carson, an aspiring "future Mars walker," to help launch the collection and record videos about each of the space toys.
Omega Marstimer: Omega, the company behind the first watch worn on the moon, is now ready to keep time on Mars. The new Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer features tools developed by the European Space Agency to assist scientists researching the Red Planet. In addition to tracking mission elapsed time on Earth, the digital and analog Marstimer can also display Mars' sol date and time.
Raise a bottle: Astronauts flying with Axiom Space will soon be able to raise a toast with bubbly made for microgravity. Maison Mumm has partnered with Axiom to launch Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar on missions beginning in 2023. The champagne is contained in special glass and stainless steel bottles that are safe for spaceflight and that dispense the sparkling wine as a foam preserving the taste.
Valery Polyakov, 1942-2022: At 437 days, 17 hours and 58 minutes, cosmonaut Valery Polyakov set the record for the longest stay in space in 1995. On Monday (Sept. 19), he died at the age 80. Recruited as a physician specializing in space medicine, Polyakov flew twice to the space station Mir. With the 241 days from his first mission, Polyakov logged a total of 678 days and 16 hours off Earth.
Brian Binnie, 1953-2022: Perhaps the last person to fly into space alone, Brian Binnie piloted the Ansari XPRIZE-winning flight of Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne rocket plane on Oct. 4, 2004. He died at the age of 69 on Thursday (Sept. 15). A commander in the U.S. Navy who served as a naval aviator for 21 years, Binnie logged more than 4,300 flight hours. In addition to SpaceShipOne, Binnie also flew test flights for Rotary Rocket and XCOR.
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