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Space Debris A Danger To Future Missions
Of all the landfills to blight the planet, perhaps the biggest garbage collection on all is the one actually orbiting the Earth. In fact, the situation has begun to get so far out of control […]
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Moon Village an Essential Part of a Space Exploration Strategy
The old proverb states that “it takes a village to raise a child”, but according to the European Space Agency (ESA) it will also take one to ensure the future of space exploration. In an […]
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Tardigrade Genes Could Protect Astronauts From Radiation
Many people joke that if there was ever a nuclear holocaust, only cockroaches would survive the fallout, but it turns out that the pests would likely be joined at the end of the world by […]
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How Long Would a Spacecraft Take to Reach Proxima Centauri?
In science fiction movies, we see crews being frozen in cryogenic chambers so that they can make long trips across the universe. The crew being placed in an induced state of hibernation at the start […]
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The Economic Benefits of a Space Industry
Space has intrigued mankind forever, and in the 20th century the USA and the USSR became caught up in a race to see who could conquer it first. On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched […]
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China Developing into a Major Space Power
On June 25, 2016, China launched a 53-meter, 600-tonne rocket, which became the latest of the country’s spacecraft to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and voyage into space. The purpose of the Long March-7 rocket is […]
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NASA’s 2016 Budget Boosted to $19.3 Billion
In case you’ve haven’t heard, N.A.S.A (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) will be receiving a much larger budget in the upcoming fiscal year. For the year 2015, N.A.S.A.’s budget was around $18.01 billion, while for […]
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Russia and Europe Aim To Build Base On Dark Side Of The Moon
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmo) have announced a joint mission to the moon in 2020, whose primary goal will be to explore the South Pole region, and discover whether […]
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Martian Life Hopes Raised After Liquid Water Find
At the end of September, NASA announced the discovery of occasional streaks of flowing salty water on the slopes of mountainsides, canyons and craters on the southern hemisphere of Mars. A week later, and the […]
Astronomy Lists
10 Fun Facts About Outer Space
Much of what is known about space science is hard to fully understand, even for the scientists who study the field. Fortunately, there are many more understandable, and cooler facts about space that we can […]