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The next great space race may not be to plant flags, but to bring home the first untouched samples from Mars, Phobos, and ancient asteroids.
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Only 66 years separate the Wright Brothers' first 12-second powered flight in 1903 from the Apollo 11 landing on the moon in 1969 " a span shorter than a single human lifetime " and the astronauts of Apollo 11 carried a small piece of wood from the original Wright Flyer's propeller with them to the lunar surface, in a quiet gesture acknowledging exactly how recent the entire arc of human flight actually is
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Thought by Carl Sagan: "All of human history happened on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
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Five astronauts just spent hours hiding inside a Dragon capsule while the ISS leaked " and the real story isn't the hole, it's the argument NASA had with Roscosmos over a saw
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W2246f sits 1. 2 billion light years away with an old, quiet central kiloparsec and a still-star-forming disk, but MUSE found no recent collision or active nucleus to explain the galaxy's split personality
17+ hour, 30+ min ago (1178+ words) W2246f looks calm in exactly the place astronomers expected trouble. The spiral galaxy sits about 1. 2 billion light years from Earth, spans roughly 50, 000 to 70, 000 light years, and lies by chance in front of the far" Published June 9, 2026 W2246f looks calm in exactly the…...
On June 5, five astronauts sheltered inside a Space X Dragon while a Russian tunnel on the ISS lost about two pounds of air a day, after NASA objected to a repair plan that meant cutting a bracket near the suspected crack
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In June 2026, behind Space X's plan to sell 555. 6 million shares at $135 each, the $1. 77 trillion question facing investors was not rockets alone, but Starlink, AI data centers, and Mars inside one company
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The FCC just gave Amazon a pass on its Kuiper deadline " but the 20-month spectrum penalty buried in the waiver quietly hands Starlink the win Amazon was trying to prevent
22+ hour, 8+ min ago (163+ words) The Federal Communications Commission just handed Amazon exactly what it asked for " and exactly what Space X was fighting to prevent. Published June 9, 2026 It's a regulatory paradox the FCC has chosen to live with: an agency trying to prevent a…...
In 2026, China put more than 100 space-computing organizations under a new Beijing committee, tying 12 AI satellites and a 1, 000-POPS orbital supercomputer plan to the Five-Year Plan and the still-unsolved problem of moving data through orbit
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1082+ words) China is no longer treating orbital computing as a stack of startup pitch decks. Published June 9, 2026 China is no longer treating orbital computing as a stack of startup pitch decks. On June 3, a new Beijing committee gathered more than 100 applicant…...
Tom Mueller spent nearly two decades building the Merlin and Draco engines that helped make Space X possible, and now his in-space mobility company has crossed $1 billion in venture funding before its fastest vehicle has flown to geostationary orbit
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (1243+ words) Published June 8, 2026 Tom Mueller helped build the engines that made Falcon 9 and Dragon work, and his next company has now raised more than $1 billion to solve a quieter problem: what happens after a rocket lets go of its payload. Impulse…...