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Space & Missions
Copper wire from 1963 MIT project still orbiting Earth decades later
The loose copper hairs of Project West Ford fell back within a few years. The clumps that never came apart are another story: two public satellite catalogues still list about three dozen in orbit.
Taco Bell insured a floating target against falling Mir space station in 2001
New York Times admitted it was wrong about rockets, 49 years after mocking Goddard
Apollo 12 astronauts walked to a silent moon probe and brought its camera home
Earth plunges through the Moon's sodium tail every 29.5 days
Amateur astronomers map asteroid shapes by timing starlight with stopwatches
Japan's spacecraft will bring back Mars moon samples in 2031
Mining the Moon's ice remains unsolved, despite the abundance
Roman’s fuel savings could support a longer operating life
Citizen scientists fired ISEE-3’s thrusters, but its recovery burn soon failed
Comet dust tricked Rosetta into safe mode 400 million km away
