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Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.
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Venus’ Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By A High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor
Venus’ bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a…
Inside the impossible math of managing Elon Musk’s trillionaire SpaceX wealth
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The Faulty Logic Behind the SpaceX Index Trade – WSJ
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Astronomers fear orbital data centers will interfere with observations
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Elon Musk drifted from Larry Page, but SpaceX, Google closer than ever
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Artemis II crew captures rare double auroras on the dark side of Earth as they zoom toward the moon — Space photo of the week
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