Space & Missions
Space Travel
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Space Travel
How did a captured German rocket, launched from a New Mexico desert in 1946…
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7 space missions that came far closer to disaster than anyone was told
Human Factors
Buzz Aldrin called the Moon "magnificent desolation." He spent the decades after it…
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NASA studied pilots taking 26-minute naps during long flights and found their…
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In May 1973, Skylab reached orbit with its heat shield torn away, one solar wing…
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On July 18, 2026, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 became the first privately developed…
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In 1977, NASA launched two probes designed to last five years
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In early 1962, weeks before John Glenn's orbital flight, a NASA mathematician named…
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Voyager 1 is still crossing interstellar space with six computers holding about 68…
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The lines etched into Voyager’s Golden Record cover point towards 14 pulsars whose…
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In 1980, Voyager 1 flew close enough to Titan to reveal its thick nitrogen…
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In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet's tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains…
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Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the…
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On July 16, 2026, a Falcon 9 carried 21 more satellites into orbit for the…
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