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


Russia has committed to a joint lunar power station with China by 2036. Its only…

Google Earth, the CIA, and National Geographic all once trusted that an island existed…

On October 27, 1962, the fate of the planet came down to one man's judgement inside an…

Spending months in space quietly rebuilds an astronaut's body

A single 1968 photograph of Earth rising over the Moon reshaped how we see our planet…

Jet pilots had a word for the feeling of coming loose from the earth at high altitude…

Almost everything the movies taught you about Egypt's pyramids is wrong

In 2000, miners in Mexico broke through a wall and found a hidden cave of crystals…

Before John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, he made one unusual demand

At the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a thousand metres down, lies a lake so lethal its…
