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Space Daily Editorial Team
Editorial Team

Space Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Daily Editorial Team produces content across our two editorial pillars: space industry news and Mind & Meaning. We cover launches, missions, satellites, defense, and the technology of getting humans to space, alongside the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Human Behaviour

In May 2008, months before the global financial crisis tore through commodity markets, Nathan Tinkler cashed out $422 million — one of the best-timed bets in Australian history

Nathan Tinkler bought a Queensland coal tenement for $1 million in 2006 against his Newcastle house, then sold it to Macarthur Coal for $422 million in May 2008 — weeks before the global financial crisis wiped 60 per cent off thermal coal prices. What he did with the money is the cautionary part.

Jun 16, 2026
Psychology

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus taught that almost all human suffering comes from confusing the things we can control with the things we cannot — and the simple practice he proposed, of separating those two categories every morning before anything else, has quietly become the foundation of modern cognitive behavioral therapy nearly two thousand years later

If you have ever lain awake at 3 a.m. running through a conversation you cannot rewrite, a decision someone else has already made, or a future event you cannot…

Jun 16, 2026
Mind & Meaning

Older adults with the highest sense of purpose in life had a 46 percent lower mortality risk over four years compared to those with the lowest scores — according to a 2022 study by Harvard’s Eric Kim and colleagues — making purpose roughly 1.8 times as protective against death as not smoking, meaning what you wake up wanting to do may turn out to matter for how long you live almost as much as anything else you can measure

The question of whether having a reason to get out of bed in the morning affects how long you live turns out to be answerable, and the answer is yes by an unexpectedly large margin.

Jun 16, 2026
Psychology

Ozempic was found in a 2025 clinical trial to reduce measurable biological age in adults by approximately 3 to 5 years — with improvements in inflammation, cardiovascular health, and kidney function — meaning a drug originally designed to manage blood sugar may turn out to be one of the first medications to formally extend human healthspan

The drug currently sweeping through the world's prescription markets as a treatment for diabetes and obesity may turn out to do something its manufacturer never quite designed it for.

Jun 16, 2026
Internet Space

When JAXA engineers needed a self-deploying transformation mechanism small enough to survive a lunar landing inside a metal sphere, they called the Japanese toy company behind the original 1984 Transformers line — and the robot that emerged, eight centimeters across, spent 100 minutes rolling across the Moon in January 2024 and quietly rewrote what a machine the size of a tennis ball can do on another world

When JAXA engineers needed a self-deploying transformation mechanism small enough to survive the jolt of a lunar landing inside a metal sphere, they called Takara Tomy — the Japanese toy company behind the original 1984 Transformers line.

Jun 16, 2026
Space Scopes

When the Soviet Venera 13 probe touched down on Venus in March 1982, it survived for 127 minutes in a 465-degree atmosphere that crushed it with the pressure of nearly a kilometre of ocean water, and in that time it scraped a soil sample, analysed it, and transmitted the first colour photographs ever taken from the surface of another planet.

On March 1, 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander touched down on Venus and survived 127 minutes in 465-degree heat and 92 atmospheres of pressure — long enough to scrape a soil sample, analyse it, and transmit the first colour photographs ever taken from the surface of another planet.

Jun 16, 2026
Human Behaviour

Japan’s ‘ikigai’ has no single English translation, but the simple idea of having a reason to get up each morning was linked, in a 2008 study that tracked 43,000 Japanese adults for seven years, to measurably lower mortality

A 2008 study of 43,391 Japanese adults by Toshimasa Sone at Tohoku University found that those who reported having ikigai — a Japanese word with no clean English equivalent, meaning roughly a reason to get up in the morning — were significantly less likely to die over the following seven years, particularly from cardiovascular causes.

Jun 16, 2026