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Thought of the day from Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "Loss is nothing else than change. But the universal nature delights in change."
Earth's magnetic field is deflecting dangerous charged particles away from your body right now without you noticing. An astronaut heading to Mars would leave that protection behind—and could spend nearly three years beyond Earth's magnetic shield before returning home.
Of the 27 songs NASA sent into space aboard the Voyager Golden Record in 1977, one is a Georgian song called Chakrulo, sung by two soloists over a full choir in harmonies tuned to intervals that don't exist on a piano — and this November, the spacecraft carrying it becomes the first human-made object ever to travel a full light-day from Earth
The first animals to circle the Moon weren't astronauts—they were two Central Asian steppe tortoises aboard the Soviet Zond 5, which beat Apollo 8 by three months in 1968. They returned alive after the week-long journey, having lost only about 10% of their body weight.
