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Human Factors
Crew performance, mission operations, space history, policy and the human consequences of exploration.

Space & Missions
NASA tests whether lunar pit leads to radiation-shielded lava tube
Underground caverns could offer lunar explorers their first true shelter, if a buried tunnel system actually exists beneath the volcanic landscape where NASA is about to look.


Oklahoma crater redated by 100 million years, now linked to ancient mass extinction

Schoolteacher's mystery discovery on Galaxy Zoo became an astronomical object bearing her name

ESA and ISRO extend cooperation through 2032 to advance space weather and exploration

Most astronaut fingernail injuries happened in a swimming pool, not space

Astronauts on the space station are severely sleep deprived despite NASA's eight-hour mandate

Astronauts on the space station wear underwear for two days before discarding it

Visitor breath destroyed a 17,000-year-old cave, so France sealed it and built a replica

US dumped 47,800 containers of radioactive waste off San Francisco

Scientists hid 1,600 microphones across California forest to track how birds survive fire

Dozens of Gold Rush ships lie buried beneath San Francisco's streets
