Picture a single point in the South Pacific, halfway between the Chatham Islands of New Zealand and southern Chile, where the water runs more than 4,000 metres deep and the nearest coastline lies a continent's width away.
Every Cavendish banana in a Tesco, a Whole Foods, a corner bodega in Queens, or a wet market in Manila is a genetic clone of a single plant.
Cheyenne Mountain sits south of Colorado Springs, and inside that mountain the U.S.
When Howard Carter's team cracked open Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the inventory included alabaster jars holding a thick, amber residue…
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For the first human spaceflight, on 12 April 1961, Soviet engineers locked the manual controls of Yuri Gagarin's Vostok capsule and sealed the code that would release them inside an envelope in the cabin.
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Space Daily is an independent publication covering three connected beats: the space industry, the science behind it, and the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Founded in Tokyo in 1995, we’ve built a thirty-year archive of rigorous reporting on the people, missions, and ideas pushing humanity outward — and on the human dynamics shaped by frontier life. The same ambitions, pressures, and patterns of mind that drive humanity to the stars also shape how we live on Earth. We employ modern AI technologies to support our editorial workflows; every published piece is editorially directed and reviewed.
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