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arstechnica.com May 28, 2017
Inflatable space habitat passes first hurdle, now onto radiation testing

It has now been a year since NASA successfully expanded a habitat attached to the International Space Station, the experimental Bigelow Expandable Activity Module.
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singularityhub.com May 28, 2017
A Mars Survival Guide: Finding Food, Water, and Shelter on the Red Planet

Classical science fiction tales about Mars have often been about bug-eyed Martians invading Earth for its precious resources. The reality is that within the next two decades—with the usual caveats about technical and budgetary limitations—humans will be the ones invading the Red Planet.
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bloomberg.com May 26, 2017
Forget Supersonic. Hypersonic Is the U.S. Military’s New Speed

In the future, military dominance will depend partly on how fast you can fly and how quickly you can get into space.
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bbc.co.uk September 2, 2016
Juno probe peers below Jupiter's clouds

Scientists working on the American space agency's new Juno mission say its initial observations at Jupiter have taken their breath away. In particular, they have been amazed by the storms seen at the planet's poles.
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arstechnica.com May 24, 2017
Non-mutant mice sired from space sperm boost hope of cosmic human conception

To ensure the long-term survival of humankind, we might as well shoot for the Moon. In 2013, Japanese researchers did just that by launching freeze-dried mouse sperm into space.
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engadget.com May 25, 2017
Doomed Mars lander wasn't equipped for supersonic conditions

Last October, the European Space Agency (ESA) lost contact with the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander as it descended to Mars' surface. A few days later, the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a picture of Schiaparelli's landing site and discovered where the lander crashed into the planet's surface.
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bbc.co.uk May 25, 2017
New Zealand space launch is first from a private site

An American company has launched a rocket into space from New Zealand, the first from a private launch facility. Rocket Lab's 17m (56ft) Electron rocket took off from the Mahia Peninsula, in North Island, the firm said on Twitter.
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phys.org May 25, 2017
Collapsing star gives birth to a black hole

This pair of visible-light and near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope photos shows the giant star N6946-BH1 before and after in vanished out of sight by imploding to form a black hole. The left image shows the 25 solar mass star as it looked in 2007.
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kotaku.com May 26, 2017
Dead Space 2 Proves That Linear Games Can Be Amazing

I need a break from open-world games. While I’ve had a blast with Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Ghost Recon: Wildlands, I’ve been craving something considerably more linear.
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techcrunch.com May 25, 2017
Watch SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy booster static test fire

This static test fire of one of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy booster may not actually be sending any rockets to space, but it does put off a lot of exhaust.
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apod.nasa.gov May 2, 2017
Approach above Sunset

Explanation: There it is! The Cygnus supply ship was a welcome sight to the astronauts on the International Space Station just over a week ago.
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waitbutwhy.com August 16, 2015
How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, start with Part 1. Pre-Post Note: I started working on this post ten weeks ago. When I started, I never intended for it to become such an ordeal.
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aeon.co February 13, 2017
Life on Mars

I don’t quite remember what it’s like to wake up on Earth.
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Stars and Dust Pillars in NGC 7822 from WISE

Explanation: Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, this glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away.
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arstechnica.com February 1, 2016
The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia

February 1, 2016: One of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration is the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and all seven of its crew on February 1, 2003—a tragedy made worse because it didn’t have to happen.
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Space Station Detector Finds Unexplained Positron Excess

Explanation: Where did all these high energy positrons come from? The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been meticulously recording how often it is struck by both high energy electrons and positrons since 2011.
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time.com January 28, 2016
Challenger: The Science of a Space Shuttle Disaster

There's a terrible power to the iconic pictures of the space shuttle Challenger exploding — the orange-white fireball in the Florida sky, with the twin contrails of the solid rocket boosters briefly continuing on their journey to nowhere. It's been 30 years since that awful morning on Jan.
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aeon.co
Exodus

‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. It was a sunny afternoon, a Thursday, one of three designated weekdays Musk spends at SpaceX.
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aeon.co January 16, 2017
To boldly sell

This is my lunar acre. There are many like it, billions, but this one is mine. At least, it could be for a modest fee: a steal at $19.95 through Cosmic Registry, $19.99 through Lunar Embassy, or ‘prices to fit any budget’ through Lunar Registry, depending on the quality of the neighbourhood.
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inc.com May 8, 2017
Elon Musk Just Gave Some Brilliant Career Advice. Here It Is in 1 Sentence

Spearheading the sustainable energy movement. Attempting to solve rush hour traffic. Exploring the unknown regions of outer space. Responding to fans (and critics) on social media. To say billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is keeping busy would surely be an understatement.
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launiusr.wordpress.com February 8, 2012
Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned the value of space exploration. At the time Dr.
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backchannel.com November 5, 2013
These Scientists Sent a Rocket to Mars for Less Than It Cost to Make “The Martian”

Ona rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations — NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s — had ever been a success.
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apod.nasa.gov
Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together

Explanation: How was this picture taken? Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle.
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wired.com February 16, 2016
The 12 Greatest Challenges for Space Exploration

Humanity began in Africa. But we didn’t stay there, not all of us—over thousands of years our ancestors walked all over the continent, then out of it. And when they came to the sea, they built boats and sailed tremendous distances to islands they could not have known were there. Why?
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bloomberg.com February 27, 2017
Earth’s Orbiting Junkyard Threatens the Space Economy

You never see it in those lovely NASA pictures of Earth, but the space surrounding our pale blue dot is a cosmic junkyard. Debris abounds, moving at ludicrous speeds and presenting plenty of hassles for satellite operators who do business in orbit.
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apod.nasa.gov July 17, 2017
Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: Icy world Charon is 1,200 kilometers across.
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nautil.us January 7, 2016
2015 Was the Best Year Ever in Space

With 2015 now behind us, what truly stands out? Other than (alas) holding the record for hottest year in recorded history? Amid a confusion of good, bad, and disturbing news, what I find noteworthy is that 2015 was by far humanity’s best year in space—exploring the universe around us.
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fivethirtyeight.com February 24, 2017
Mars Needs Lawyers

The Liberian flag is easy to mistake for the U.S. flag. There’s the red, white and blue. There’s the stripes. The only difference is that the Liberian flag features one star in the upper left corner, instead of 50 — a legacy of the coastal West African country’s origins as a U.S. colony.
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qz.com October 21, 2014
What it took for Elon Musk’s SpaceX to disrupt Boeing, leapfrog NASA, and become a serious space company

This story has been corrected. The Space Exploration Technology rocket factory is a large, white hangar-like building near Los Angeles international airport, with a parking lot filled with late-model motorcycles and Tesla electric cars.
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wired.com November 19, 2014
An Astronaut Reveals What Life in Space Is Really Like

There’s no way to anticipate the emotional impact of leaving your home planet. You look down at Earth and realize: You’re not on it. It’s breathtaking. It’s surreal. It’s a “we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto” kind of feeling.
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science.howstuffworks.com March 19, 2012
How Space Regulation Works

We tend to imagine space as empty, and most of it is, but travel 50-1,243 miles (80-2,000 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface, in the zone known as low-Earth orbit (LEO), and you'll find a stacked-up superhighway of objects.
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npr.org September 17, 2015
What Happens When You Get Your Period In Space?

Hundreds of you sent in questions for Skunk Bear's live conversation with three astronauts and NASA's chief scientist on Tuesday. Thanks! The most common question was: "What happens when you get your period in space?" But since people were genuinely curious, I decided to answer it here.
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medium.com November 9, 2014
All Dressed Up For Mars and Nowhere to Go – Matter – Medium

When Josh was 10 years old, he sat cross-legged on the floor in his parent’s neat, suburban home in Australia, enraptured. It was May 1996 and Andy Thomas had just stepped out of the space shuttle Endeavour and onto the tarmac of Runway 33 of the Kennedy Space Center.
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apod.nasa.gov November 17, 2017
The Double Dust Disks of HD 95086

Explanation: What do other star systems look like? To help find out, astronomers are carrying out detailed observations of nearby stars in infrared light to see which have dust disks that might be forming planets.
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economist.com August 27, 2016
Brave new worlds

IT MAY turn out to be a bare and barren rock. The fact that liquid water could be flowing across the surface of the planet just discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun, does not mean that any actually is—nor for that matter that it has an atmosphere.
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theatlantic.com May 16, 2017
5,200 Days in Space

An exploration of life aboard the International Space Station, and the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile When humans move to space, we are the aliens, the extraterrestrials. And so, living in space, the oddness never quite goes away. Consider something as elemental as sleep.
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gizmodo.com May 23, 2016
These Are the Sad Remains of the Soviet Space Shuttle Program

Russian photographer and urban explorer Ralph Mirebs just published one of the saddest photoseries on space exploration.
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calvertjournal.com
Cult of the cosmic

The cult of science and space exploration in the Soviet Union was as close as to religion as you could get in an atheist state. Unfortunately it ended up being one of the few positive trends that disappeared with the collapse of communism.
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esa.int
International Space Station panoramic tour

Node-3 Tranquillity provides life-support for the International Space Station. Part of Tranquility is ESA's Cupola observation module, a seven-window dome-shaped structure from where the Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm 2, is operated as it offers a panoramic view of space and Earth.
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The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble

Explanation: The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often named for flowers or insects. Though its wingspan covers over 3 light-years, NGC 6302 is no exception.
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theverge.com September 30, 2016
Who should go to Mars?

Elon Musk laid out his plan to colonize Mars at a conference on Tuesday, but it was during the Q&A session that a woman asked one of the key questions: who will be chosen to embark on a risky trip to colonize a harsh planet? The SpaceX CEO had two answers to this line of questioning.
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npr.org February 25, 2016
Your Letters Helped Challenger Shuttle Engineer Shed 30 Years Of Guilt

When NPR reported Bob Ebeling's story on the 30th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, hundreds of listeners and readers expressed distress and sympathy in letters and emails. On Jan.
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spacex.com February 27, 2017
SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the Moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a Moon mission.
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worldpolicy.org
Innovation Starvation

My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking black-and-white television, watching the early Gemini missions.
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cnn.com October 11, 2016
Barack Obama: America will take the giant leap to Mars

Barack Obama is President of the United States. (CNN)One of my earliest memories is sitting on my grandfather's shoulders, waving a flag as our astronauts returned to Hawaii. This was years before we'd set foot on the moon. Decades before we'd land a rover on Mars.
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arstechnica.com December 15, 2015
Why we’re going back to the Moon—with or without NASA

It was time for the spent rocket to die. So the 2,000kg Centaur upper stage, about the size of a yellow school bus, detached from its spacecraft and began falling toward the Moon six years ago. Soon lunar gravity took hold, tugging the Centaur ever faster toward the Moon’s inky black South Pole.
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gizmodo.com February 6, 2017
Oh My God, NASA Launched a GIPHY Page and It's Glorious

You love space gifs. Your weird engineering buddy loves space gifs.
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fastcoexist.com November 5, 2014
The Break-Off Effect

Many of those pilots recounted positive feelings, even as they started making dangerous mistakes. Feelings like awe, reverence, and a sense of calm and "separation from the problems of the world" could all force them to take their aircraft into an unplanned maneuver.
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economist.com October 1, 2016
The world is not enough

“I’D LIKE to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” Elon Musk has never been shy about his reasons for founding SpaceX, a rocketry firm that has become the flag-carrier for a buccaneering “New Space” industry.
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gawker.com January 28, 2016
Thirty Years Ago, the Challenger Crew Plunged Alive and Aware to Their Deaths

On January 28, 1986, America watched on television as the space shuttle Challenger—carrying six astronauts and one schoolteacher—disappeared in a twisting cloud of smoke, nine miles above the launch pad it had just left. To a stunned nation, it appeared that seven lives had instantly been lost.
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theverge.com December 5, 2014
How did Orion withstand temperatures twice the melting point of steel?

In Florida, at the Kennedy Space Center, Molly White is cheering with her sister.
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ustream.tv
ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment

Black Image = International Space Station (ISS) is on the night side of the Earth. No Audio = Normal. There is no audio by design. Add your own soundtrack.
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apod.nasa.gov April 20, 2017
Asteroid 2014 JO25

Explanation: A day before its closest approach, asteroid 2014 JO25 was imaged by radar with the 70-meter antenna of NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.
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listverse.com September 5, 2014
10 Surprising Things You Can See From Space

In recent years, the myth that we can clearly see the Great Wall of China from space has been largely busted. Although the wall is long, it’s not very wide and blends in too well with the surrounding environment.
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nytimes.com June 4, 2016
NASA to Try Again to Inflate a Balloon-like Pod for the Space Station

Officials at NASA and Bigelow Aerospace, the company that built Beam at a cost of $17.8 million, said there were no concerns about the module itself.
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bbc.com November 5, 2013
Why India's Mars mission is so cheap - and thrilling

India's space programme has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed - by sending an operational mission to Mars. The Mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be in orbit shortly after 0800, Indian time. It is, without doubt, a considerable achievement.
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theverge.com January 27, 2017
How an international treaty signed 50 years ago became the backbone for space law

Fifty years ago today, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom opened a treaty for signature that would become the backbone for international space law.
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gizmodo.com July 13, 2015
Why Astronauts Were Banned From Drinking Wine In Outer Space

The story behind NASA's brief embrace of extraterrestrial sherry is a curious one. In the early seventies, the agency's focus was shifting from short, Moon-focused missions to the possibility of longer-term inhabitation of space.
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wired.com
Welcome to Spaceport America. Your Rocket Will Depart Soon. Ish.

Space. It’s a funny thing. Kubrick knew that.
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theverge.com July 22, 2015
Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson explain the history of the universe in under eight minutes

Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique talent for translating the complicated and vast history of space into simple, digestible bits for layfolk like us, whether through breakfasts with Pluto and hundreds of NASA fans or his revival of Carl Sagan's classic docu-series Cosmos.
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engadget.com
The road to Mars: NASA's next 30 years

What will NASA be up to by 2030? The space agency (and even President Barack Obama) hopes it will be close to launching a manned mission to the surface of Mars. But, before that's possible, there's a whole lot of puzzle pieces to fit together.
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Galileo's Europa Remastered

Explanation: Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and uncovered evidence that the moon's icy surface likely hides a deep, global ocean.
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Aurora and Milky Way in a Little Sky

Explanation: Stepping stones seem to lead to the Milky Way as it stretches across this little sky. Of course, the scene is really the northern hemisphere's autumnal equinox night.
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The Cat's Eye Nebula from Hubble

Explanation: To some, it may look like a cat's eye. The alluring Cat's Eye nebula, however, lies three thousand light-years from Earth across interstellar space. A classic planetary nebula, the Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) represents a final, brief yet glorious phase in the life of a sun-like star.
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washingtonpost.com May 29, 2003
Thousands of tiny satellites are about to go into space and possibly ruin it forever

Halfway through the European Space Agency's new film, we're at the part where — if this were some happy space documentary from yesteryear — Carl Sagan might be giving us a tour of a distant galaxy. But it's 2017, Sagan is dead, and this is a film about space trash.
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blogs.esa.int August 20, 2013
EVA 23: exploring the frontier

My eyes are closed as I listen to Chris counting down the atmospheric pressure inside the airlock – it’s close to zero now. But I’m not tired – quite the reverse! I feel fully charged, as if electricity and not blood were running through my veins.
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nytimes.com March 8, 2017
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s Moon Shot, Gets First Paying Customer

WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire chief executive of Amazon, founded a rocket company as a hobby 16 years ago. Now that company, Blue Origin, finally has its first paying customer as it ramps up to become a full-fledged business. Mr.
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arstechnica.com February 28, 2017
If you think NASA is frustrated with SpaceX, you’re probably right

NASA is far from a perfect government agency. As former space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale recently noted, NASA is hobbled by three major problems—rivalries between field centers, "mind-numbing" bureaucracy, and a "paralyzing" cultural requirement for perfection in all things.
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nautil.us April 19, 2016
Mining in Space Could Lead to Conflicts on Earth

Space mining is no longer science fiction.
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Jupiter's Europa from Spacecraft Galileo

Explanation: What mysteries might be solved by peering into this crystal ball? In this case, the ball is actually a moon of Jupiter, the crystals are ice, and the moon is not only dirty but cracked beyond repair.
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idlewords.com
A Rocket To Nowhere

The Space Shuttle Discovery is up in orbit, safely docked to the International Space Station, and for the next five days, astronauts will be busy figuring out whether it's safe for them to come home.
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apod.nasa.gov February 6, 2017
The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble

Explanation: What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown, was likely a normal spiral galaxy -- spinning, creating stars -- and minding its own business.
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medium.com July 28, 2015
Spatial Interfaces

I think spatially, and so do you.
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theverge.com December 22, 2016
2016: the year in space

The year 2016 was a dynamic time for spaceflight and space science, marked by major technological achievements in rocketry and scientific discoveries that will completely alter our understanding of the Universe for decades to come.
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nytimes.com January 15, 2017
SpaceX Launches Rocket, Its First Since Explosion on Launchpad

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A Falcon 9 rocket roared into the sky on Saturday carrying 10 communications satellites — a return by SpaceX and its billionaire leader, Elon Musk, to the business of launching satellites to orbit.
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arstechnica.com June 14, 2015
Stunning images of abandoned Soviet space shuttles

Thanks to reddit, we discovered this amazing photo essay by Ralph Mirebs from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan.
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vox.com February 23, 2015
The dark future of American space exploration

One by one they flickered to life. Venus, first, in 1962, and two and a half years later, Mars. Our spacecraft flew by those planets, orbited them, and became manmade meteors streaking toward the first soil we couldn’t generically call "earth.
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theverge.com September 1, 2014
NASA is building the largest rocket of all time for a 2018 launch

The plainly-named Space Launch System is designed to take astronauts further into space than ever before Artist's rendering of NASA's Space Launch System (credit: NASA/MSFC) NASA has worked on some inspiring interplanetary projects in the last few years, b
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apod.nasa.gov September 13, 2017
NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble

Explanation: Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
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petapixel.com June 6, 2013
A Mind-Bending Look at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo of the Universe

It all started back in 1996 when a group of astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at an empty patch in the sky close to the Big Dipper in hopes of seeing something, anything. At the time, it was considered to be a risky move, given that demand for use of the telescope was so high.
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arstechnica.com December 31, 2015
Space for Europe and for all humankind: A brief history of the ESA

In November 2014, a strange-looking little spider of a spacecraft caught the world's attention. It may have been one of the oddest-looking pioneers of all time, resembling a mini-refrigerator attached to an insect's legs.
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story.californiasunday.com February 2, 2017
Mars Madness

Tina Sjogren remembers exactly where she was when she told her husband, Tom, that she wanted to go to Mars: inside the whirlpool on the patio of the Sheraton Gateway Hotel.
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inverse.com November 1, 2016
Outer Space Is Mountainous Terrain

It’s hard to conceptualize space. Movies have made it seem flat and empty, sort of a Star Wars credits style flat plane of existence.
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