Aerospace
Aerospace
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Aerospace
Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado was hollowed out in the 1960s into a 4.5-acre complex of buildings mounted on 1,319 steel springs, each weighing about 1,000 pounds, designed so that the entire underground city could sway during a nuclear blast without snapping the wiring inside.
Aerospace
It is impossible to burp in space, because in microgravity the human stomach cannot separate gas from the liquid and partially digested food it sits inside, and any attempt to burp expels a mixture of all three directly into the astronaut's mouth.
Constellations
In December 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 probe became the first spacecraft to transmit from another planet, sending 23 minutes of faint temperature data from Venus after a torn parachute tipped it onto its side and buried its signal in what engineers first dismissed as tape noise
Constellations
In 2025, NASA quietly opened the commander's seat on private missions to the International Space Station to astronauts who never wore its patch, and the first man in line is Thomas Pesquet, a Frenchman who has commanded the station before and will return in 2027 flying for a California startup
Space Industry
In June 2026, China rolled its brand-new Long March 12B onto a pad in the Gobi Desert, told no one, loaded the maiden flight with paying customers' satellites — and the rocket built to land its booster never even tried.
Aerospace
There is a planet 63 light-years from Earth where the rain is made of molten glass, the winds blow at 7,000 kilometres per hour, the daytime temperature is over 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the planet itself, viewed from space, is the same deep blue as Earth.
Aerospace
Supermassive black holes are pointing jets of plasma directly at Earth — and a population of them may have produced the highest-energy neutrino ever recorded
Aerospace
A particle just passed through the Mediterranean carrying 220 petaelectronvolts of energy — roughly twenty times more than any neutrino ever recorded before it, and scientists still aren't sure where it came from
Aerospace
Rocket debris that has been drifting in low Earth orbit since the 1960s just helped scientists find something they had missed for decades — a specific threshold in solar activity past which space junk starts falling toward Earth measurably faster
Aerospace
The 1965 space pen myth: NASA didn't spend millions to build a pen and the Soviets didn't outsmart anyone with a pencil. Inventor Paul C. Fisher quietly developed the pressurised pen on his own dime and only sold it to NASA.
Aerospace
Finland has spent decades building a tunnel 430 metres into 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years — and the current plan is to seal it, leave no marker, and hope no future civilisation ever finds it
Aerospace
Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989 and detected faint hints of auroras it couldn't explain — because the magnetic field is tilted 47 degrees off the rotation axis and the auroras were glowing in entirely the wrong place
Mars Daily
In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars spacecraft because of a metric-versus-imperial mix-up — the kind of conversion mistake most of us have made, only this one ended with a probe disappearing into the Martian atmosphere
Aerospace
In 1979, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter’s moon Io and revealed active volcanoes erupting beyond Earth for the first time — turning a small Jovian moon into one of the most geologically surprising worlds in the solar system
Aerospace