Space: Exploration and Spaceflight

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1. De-orbiting the ISS - will we be in any danger ?

   By UM-Bot, February 20
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   • Eldorado
   • February 28

2. Rockets to lift off from Shetland Islands by year’s end

   By Eldorado, February 28   

   • saxavord spaceport
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   • Eldorado
   • February 28

3. Making spaceflight history: John Glenn orbited Earth 60 years ago

   Sunday marks 60 years since John Glenn orbited Earth

   By Still Waters, February 21   

   • john glenn
   • friendship 7
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   • AnthonyS
   • February 21

4. Astronauts snap stunning views of February's Full Snow Moon from space

   By Still Waters, February 19   

   • full snow moon
   • mark vande hei
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   • Still Waters
   • February 19

5. NASA’s Perseverance Celebrates First Year on Mars

   By Still Waters, February 19   

   • perseverance rover
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   • Still Waters
   • February 19

6. Two New Studies Just Outlined The Basics of Building an Interstellar Light Sail

   By Still Waters, February 18   

   • interstellar light sail
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   • Still Waters
   • February 18

7. If launched by 2028, a spacecraft could catch up with 'Oumuamua in 26 years

   By Still Waters, January 24   

   • oumuamua
   • project lyra
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   • Abramelin
   • February 18

8. Life in a Mars space station – in the Utah desert

   Mars Desert Research Station

   By Eldorado, February 17   

   • space station
   • mdrs
   • 1 reply
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   • Desertrat56
   • February 17

9. SpaceX's Elon Musk: 1st orbital Starship flight maybe March

   SpaceX envisions a trip to a city on Mars -video

   By Still Waters, February 11   

   • starship
   • spacexs elon musk
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   • Desertrat56
   • February 15

10. SpaceX plans first commercial spacewalk this year

    By Eldorado, February 15   

    • spacewalk
    • billionaires playground
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    • Jon the frog
    • February 15

11. Fancy a free trip to suborbital space?

    By Eldorado, February 12   

    • citizen astronaut program
    • 0 replies
    • 164 views
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    • Eldorado
    • February 12

12. Visible light from surface of Venus captured from space for first time

    By UM-Bot, February 10
    • 3 replies
    • 542 views
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    • Manwon Lender
    • February 11

13. Lockheed Martin wins NASA contract to bring Mars samples back to Earth

    By Still Waters, February 8   

    • lockheed martin rocket
    • mars samples
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    • Still Waters
    • February 8

14. Moray rocket test launch pad 'first in UK for 50 years'

    [Updated]

    By Still Waters, December 10, 2021   

    • orbex
    • orbital space launch pad
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      • orbital space launch pad
      • kinloss
      • rocket launches
    • 2 replies
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    • Still Waters
    • February 4

15. ISS will end up at the bottom of the sea in 2031

    By UM-Bot, February 3
    • 5 replies
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    • Jon the frog
    • February 4

16. Hibernate for a trip to Mars, the bear way

    By Still Waters, January 31   

    • hibernate
    • therapeutic torpor
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      • therapeutic torpor
      • hibernating astronauts
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    • Myles
    • February 1

17. China lays out ambitious space plans for next 5 years

    By Eldorado, January 30   

    • chinas space program
    • space powers
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    • Eldorado
    • January 30

18. NASA Remembers Fallen Heroes with Day of Remembrance

    By Still Waters, January 27
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    • Still Waters
    • January 27

19. Meet the man who won a trip to space and gave it to a friend

    By Still Waters, January 27   

    • kyle hippchen
    • 1 reply
    • 233 views
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    • Uncle Yammy
    • January 27

20. Mars Perseverance rover is clogged up with pebbles

    By UM-Bot, January 15
    • 2 replies
    • 381 views
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    • Jon the frog
    • January 23

21. Radian Aerospace raises $27.5 million for new orbital space plane

    By Manwon Lender, January 21
    • 1 reply
    • 229 views
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    • taniwha
    • January 23

22. Curiosity rover finds possible evidence of life on Mars

    By UM-Bot, January 19
    • 6 replies
    • 404 views
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    • taniwha
    • January 23

23. 22,589 apply to join the ESA astronaut corps

    [Updated] Europe narrows hunt for next astronauts

    By Eldorado, June 23, 2021   

    • astronaut corps
    • esa
    • 2 replies
    • 310 views
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    • Desertrat56
    • January 19

24. SpaceX launches 49 Starlink internet satellites, lands rocket at sea

    By Manwon Lender, January 19
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    • Manwon Lender
    • January 19

25. Space travel can cause lower red blood cell counts

    By Eldorado, January 16   

    • space anemia
    • 2 replies
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    • qxcontinuum
    • January 18