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A cargo Dragon just flew its sixth mission to the ISS — and the quiet milestone reveals how SpaceX has rewritten the economics of station resupply without anyone making a fuss about it

SpaceX launched its 34th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station on May 15, and the Dragon capsule on top of the Falcon 9 was flying its sixth trip to orbit.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 17, 2026

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There is no sound in space, but NASA records the electromagnetic vibrations of planets and converts them to audio, and Saturn sounds genuinely haunting

NASA has released hours of audio purporting to be the "sounds" of planets, and the Saturn recordings in particular have circulated widely…

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026

People who say they don't remember the last time they felt genuine joy may not be dramatic — they may have spent so long performing contentment that they forgot what the real thing feels like

A friend put her cup down at lunch a few months ago and said, I can't actually remember the last time I felt happy.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026

Psychology says people who reach their 60s without close friends aren't socially deficient — some may have carried everyone else's emotional weight for so long that reciprocal friendship started to feel foreign

You probably know one. The woman who holds everyone else together. The one rung at eleven at night when somebody's had a hard day.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026

If you removed all the empty space from the atoms in every human being on Earth, the entire species would fit inside a sugar cube — and it would still weigh what 8 billion people weigh

The claim is arithmetically correct, and that is the least interesting thing about it.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026

There is a company in Osaka called Kongō Gumi that has been in continuous operation since the year 578, which means it was founded before Islam existed, before England was a country, and before the rise of nearly every institution on Earth that still has a name

Masakazu Kongō, the fortieth-generation head of Kongō Gumi, used to keep a hand-copied scroll listing every leader of the family business…

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026

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The big three carriers just agreed to do something they've never done before — pool spectrum against Starlink — and Gwynne Shotwell's reaction tells you exactly how worried SpaceX actually is

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The Pentagon is quietly dismantling the agency that built York Space Systems into a contender — and the company's CEO is making a bet that only makes sense if you understand how defense procurement actually rewards the survivors of agency reorgs

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NASA just put a 30-day clock on a $700 million Mars contract, and the deadline tells you everything about how scared the agency is of losing its relay orbiters before astronauts arrive

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What Mars Express just photographed in Shalbatana Vallis isn't just an ancient flood channel — it's the strongest topographic argument yet that Mars once held a real ocean

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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.

People who say they don't remember the last time they felt genuine joy may not be dramatic — they may have spent so long performing contentment that they forgot what the real thing feels like

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Psychology says people who reach their 60s without close friends aren't socially deficient — some may have carried everyone else's emotional weight for so long that reciprocal friendship started to feel foreign

By Space Daily Editorial Team

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Rubin Observatory will sift 10,000 comets from a decade of nightly sky imagery while Walter Reed left 1,300 facial CT scans unread for five years — the same archival-image problem, solved in one domain and chronic in another

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Europe launches a new mission to image Earth's magnetic shield in 2026 while the operational satellite warning of solar storms is a 1995 spacecraft running 28 years past retirement — the gap between discovery science and operational continuity within a single agency

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The gold in your ring formed before Earth existed — and the atoms in that small band are older than every ocean, every continent, and every form of life that has ever lived on this planet.

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The Parker Solar Probe is now moving at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in 20 seconds, and it survives skimming the Sun's corona because a four-and-a-half-inch slab of carbon foam stays at room temperature on the side facing 2,500-degree plasma.

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The cells in your eyes that detect light are technically part of your brain, pushed outward during embryonic development, which means when you look at the night sky your brain is physically touching the photons that left distant stars thousands of years ago.

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Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was — and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind, navigating the deep ocean with parasites permanently attached to their eyes.

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Space, science, and the human side of the frontier. Since 1995.

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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