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Combining the expense and inconvenience of a rocket launch with the noise and danger of hypersonic flight, this space liner is very unlikely to ever take off.
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A simulated mission to Mars finds that one of the biggest potential threats to astronauts outside of radiation will be cabin fever.
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Just how realistic is Elon Musk's 80,000 person outpost on Mars given enough time and money?
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To protect ourselves from alien extremes, a NASA plan calls for telepresence from orbit.
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All you need to know about how hard it is to land on Mars is that rocket scientists call it "seven minutes of terror."
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Space exploration and long term settlements of alien worlds might actually be a recipe for creating new countries with their own cultures, languages, and armed forces.
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It's been half a century since the first human slipped into orbit around our planet. And while we've done a lot in space since then, we haven't done nearly enough.
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Embryos outside of Earth's gravity seem to have a hard time developing, meaning that reproduction in space requires a far more fine tuned environment.
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Tau Zero Foundation's founder's interpretation of the Earth's energy generation projections profoundly misunderstands its own point.
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Single stage to orbit spacecraft have been mothballed for decades. But with the potential of space tourism, there may be an incentive to take another run at designing them.