But the floating freedom offered by a lack of gravity also presents a number of limits when it comes to the human body and mind. Short trips to space from the early Mercury and Apollo missions have turned into stays of six months or longer aboard the International Space Station. The floating laboratory has served…
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Nearly half of Americans want to travel to space. But that means the other half doesn’t, according to a 2021 survey by ValuePenguin, one of LendingTree’s financial research websites. Nearly 40% said space travel was too dangerous, while others worried about environmental impact and costs. Soon there will be an option that addresses those worries,…
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Forget about spaceships: Aliens could be “cosmic hitchhikers” traveling on free-floating planets While a warp drive almost certainly isn’t a thing that will ever exist, there’s no law of physics that says interstellar travel isn’t possible. Perhaps that is one reason why the sci-fi idea isn’t out of the realm of possibility, and why some…
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ATM machines, the internet, GPS maps, and weather reports all have one common denominator: outer space. Without space, these services would not be possible at the scale they are today. TE Connectivity’s leader of global engineering, Matt McAlonis joined Tyler Kern, host of Our Connected World, to highlight the trends in the frontier of space…
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