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Human Factors
Crew performance, mission operations, space history, policy and the human consequences of exploration.
A trained dog can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 20 Olympic-sized swimming…
In 1932, the Australian government deployed soldiers with two machine guns and 10,000…
The Sahara Desert was a green savanna with rivers, hippos, and giraffes as recently as…
The kind of sentence that means nothing until the day it suddenly means everything
Frequent incidental movement is linked to better metabolic and cardiovascular health
In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an 85-foot sperm whale in the…
Around 240 BCE, Eratosthenes used shadows and geometry to estimate Earth’s…
Only 66 years separate the Wright Brothers' first 12-second powered flight in 1903 from…
Only 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor has ever been seen by human eyes
The single loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883
