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On December 14, 1966, a NASA engineer's spacesuit sprang a leak inside a Houston vacuum chamber and the air pressure around him dropped to…
A NASA engineer's spacesuit failed at 120,000 feet, his blood began to boil, and he survived to debunk everything we thought we knew about dying in space.
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The United States recorded 178 rocket launches in 2025. Trump’s new national space policy directs American ranges to support more than…
The White House wants American ranges capable of supporting more than 1,000 launches and reentries a year by 2030. The target is broader than the 178-launch baseline and will test ranges, airspace and regulation.
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Earth’s outer core is an ocean of liquid metal whose volume roughly equals that of Mars
NASA’s astronaut interviews are only part of the test
The United States recorded 178 rocket launches in 2025. Trump’s new national space policy directs American ranges to support more than…
The Artemis II rocket and spacecraft took nearly 12 hours to crawl four miles to their launchpad at less than 1 mph—then, after carrying…
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Earth’s outer core is an ocean of liquid metal whose volume roughly equals that of Mars
On August 16, 1960, as Joe Kittinger's balloon carried him past 100,000 feet toward the edge of space, a seal in his right glove failed and…
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Scientists in Iceland drilled straight into 900°C magma by accident
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