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When not promising us cities on Triton in ten years, the media seems befuddled by and incredulous of the most conservative and realistic plans for space exploration.
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Could the far future see a market for selling entire planets not too dissimilar from today's real estate market?
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Someone should tell Elon Musk that a nuclear bombardment of Mars into habitability won't be much of a shortcut.
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New Horizons' flyby of Pluto let us see a brand new world that doesn't fit in our conventional categories, and reminded us that at our heart, we're explorers, not drones.
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Robotics researcher Srikanth Saripalli advances a bizarre argument against human spaceflight and in favor of sending a robots we haven't invented yet to distant worlds.
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If we're going to have astronauts working and living in space for years at a time, cramming them in tight, fixed spaces without artificial gravity is doing them, and us, a major disservice.
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As far as colonization ideas go, Mars One is a terrible one.
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Printing outposts on the Moon is all the rage for mission planners. And if they succeed, we will all feel the benefits here on Earth.