Category: space travel

Is There A Way?

     Our favorite Graybeard has written a concise, well-stated piece on interstellar travel, and why it’s currently out of the question. Barring a huge surprise in physics, that adverb “currently” might better be “permanently,” for a simple reason Graybeard gives:      Voyagers 1 and 2 are the farthest man made objects from us, and have …

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The Last Thing I Expected

     Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is coming back to Earth… without its crew:      NASA officials announced on Saturday that the troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft that shuttled two astronauts to space in June will return to earth without them.      Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck in space after engineers discovered helium leaks …

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