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Space & Missions
The world can't agree where space begins, and 20 km of dispute now matters
The 100 km Kármán line is a 1960 convention, the physics gives different answers depending on the question, and the band in dispute now has customers and weapons in it.
Copper wire from 1963 MIT project still orbiting Earth decades later
Juice completes Earth gravity boost while rehearsing Jupiter navigation
Taco Bell insured a floating target against falling Mir space station in 2001
New York Times admitted it was wrong about rockets, 49 years after mocking Goddard
Apollo 12 astronauts walked to a silent moon probe and brought its camera home
Earth plunges through the Moon's sodium tail every 29.5 days
Amateur astronomers map asteroid shapes by timing starlight with stopwatches
Japan's spacecraft will bring back Mars moon samples in 2031
Mining the Moon's ice remains unsolved, despite the abundance
Roman’s fuel savings could support a longer operating life
