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# politics
NASA's ability to hit ambitious future targets has to rely on private companies willing and eager to get to space, not traditional defense contractors.
# space
Could we use brain-machine interfaces to harden our astronauts against some of the most pressing dangers of space travel?
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NASA is looking to fix its problems and gear up for sustainable missions. But the actual numbers leave much to be desired.
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If NASA was funded as well as most Americans think it is, we would live in an amazing world straight out of our retrofuturistic dreams.
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Whether we like it or not, military hardware is going to be in space. It's just a question of when and what.
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Singularitarians think they figured out the perfect way to travel through space after they upload their minds to machines.
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If we'll ever meaningfully explore space, the first thing we need is a vision from our leaders that stretches beyond just winning the next election.
# space
The IIS is an engineering marvel and one of humanity's biggest accomplishments. Unfortunately, its potential is being wasted and its future is being horribly mismanaged.
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How hard would it be to develop space travel on a small, Earth-sized planet with rings posing a constant navigational hazard?
# tech
Robots are a critical component of space exploration. But they're just that, a component.