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Human Factors
Crew performance, mission operations, space history, policy and the human consequences of exploration.
Scientists spent years arguing that only a quantum computer could decode nitrogenase…
The largest known volcano in the solar system is on Mars
The Great Wall of China is not actually visible from space with the naked eye
Sound travels about four times faster underwater than it does through air
The Sahara is usually depicted as the world's largest desert, but because a desert is…
The Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh burned down in 612 BC, but because its 30,000…
Michael Collins, dubbed by the press "the loneliest man in history" while orbiting the…
Evidence of ancient life has just been found buried inside an asteroid crater
Astrophysicists have a quiet ranking of Hollywood's space movies
There is a moment, in most adults' lives, when intuition turns out to have been right…
