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What occurs if a person perishes in space?
There’s no question that sending human beings to space is an extraordinarily difficult and perilous proposition.
Since human space exploration began just over 60 years...
65 years of NASA: A astrophysicist considers the legacy of the agency
Sixty-five years ago, in 1958, several government programs that had been pursuing spaceflight combined to form NASA. At the time, I was only 3...
SpaceX makes an explosive debut by launching the most powerful rocket in history.
On April 20, 2023, a new SpaceX rocket called Starship exploded over the Gulf of Mexico three minutes into its first flight ever. SpaceX...
In the universe, how many galaxies are there?
A galaxy is a massive collection of gas, dust and billions of stars all bound together by the force of gravity. Galaxies are also...
15,694 pounds of human waste from 50 years of robotic exploration are scattered across Mars.
People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, nations have...
