Questions tagged [space]
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Is there only one photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
Christie's is a famous auction house. In their press release and marketing material, Christie's Voyage to Another World: The Victor Martrin-Malburet Photograph Collection, you can find the following claims
Lot 345, The only photograph of Neil…
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Will SpaceX's fleet of rockets triple the entire United States demand for methane/natural gas?
According to Energy Consulting Group's "SpaceX's Starship May Nearly Triple US Natural Gas Demand" page,
Our analysis indicates that a fully configured Starship launch (booster and Starship) will use about a 1000 tonnes of methane in the form of…
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Did North Korean missiles reach space in early 2022?
BBC News is hosting a number of photos from the North Korean news service, which depict a North Korean missile launch. Specifically these figures, which have this description:
Images released by the North Korean news agency show the missile launch,…
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Does China plan to launch artificial moons?
A recent news report suggests that China has an ambitious plan:
to send three artificial moons into space in the next four years
that would be
bright enough to replace the streetlights in the south-western city of Chengdu by 2020
The source of…
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Was Chinese space station forced to take evasive action in 2021?
CNBC reports that
China complained that its space station was forced to take evasive action to avoid collision with satellites launched by Musk’s Starlink programme.
The documents should be published on 'document published on the website of the…
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Do recent images from the JWST pose a major crisis for Big Bang cosmology?
In some recent publications, plasma physicist and alternative cosmology advocate Eric Lerner has made the claim that recent JWST images disprove the conventional ΛCDM model of cosmological inflation, and hence that "The Big Bang didn't happen".
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Did the United States ever call Venus "the Soviet planet"?
I saw an article that mentioned some recent comments from the Russian space agency Roscosmos. One statement they made was:
The huge gap between the Soviet Union and its competitors in Venus research contributed to the fact that the United States…
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Have more people been to the deep ocean on submersibles than to space on space craft?
According to this comment by Jon Copley a Marine Biologist as interviewed by
Nexus for their show "He was right: Engineer who warned Stockton Rush about OceanGate talks to Nexus",
There has never before been a deep-diving submersible that has…
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Have more people been to space than visited every nation?
I read in Melburnian Rachel Davey becomes the first Australian woman to visit every nation in the world
(mirror):
In human history, more people have been to space than visited every nation.
Is that true?
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Does the Black Knight satellite exist?
Is there an unidentified satellite, known as the Black Knight satellite, in a retrograde orbit around the Earth?
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Has Virgin Galactic flown any tourists yet
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post this question in https://space.stackexchange.com/ or https://travel.stackexchange.com/ but today I heard from a friend for the first time that Virgin Galactic has already flown the first tourists into space this…
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