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Waiting for the Chinese space station
We’ve seen space stations before. The old Soviet Union got the ball rolling in early 1970s with the first—the Salyut space stations. Next, America launched Skylab, which remains to this day the single largest “room” ever in space. (It was created from a hollowed-out stage of a Saturn rocket.) The Soviets produced Mir, a multi-module [...]
Phoenix Lives!
NASA’s martian probe, Phoenix, has successfully recharged its batteries and is sending signals back again. Hurray!
Von Braun: Why send people into space?
Noting that the (then) recently completed manned mission around the moon yielded very little valuable information and cost a great deal of money—Werner von Braun wrote that space exploration is still worth it. Why? “To say at this time that man in space has made little contribution to scientific knowledge or to economic returns is [...]
