Questions tagged [space-flight]
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Did Iran launch a monkey into space and safely return it to Earth?
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Monkey-business-US-unsure-of-Iran-s-space-claims-4249556.php
The United States expressed doubt on Monday about Iran's claim that
it safely returned a monkey from space, saying it is questionable that
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Can Iran afford to put someone on the moon by 2025?
Iran has claimed that it intends to put someone on the moon by 2025. I find it hard to believe that Iran has the necessary financial resources to accomplish such a mission.
Notwithstanding some unpredictable advances in the cost-effectiveness of…
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Are United States scientists building a Stanford Torus space station in the Ukraine?
In late 2011 the prime minister of Ukraine said the following:
But it is impossible to predict what will happen in 20 years. I will
tell you a story: I just got back from a plant in Dnipropetrovsk. Only
20 years ago, it was a highly classified…
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Have more people "been to space than have flown in a B-2?"
According to Popular Mechanics (emphasis added):
More people have been to space than have flown in a B-2.
... A B-2 pilot at Whiteman [Air Force Base] told me that the number of astronauts who've been to space is larger than the number of people…
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Does the EM drive (electromagnetic drive) work despite the apparent lack of propellant?
In recent headlines, a supposed EM drive, or RF resonant cavity thruster, has been reported to produce thrust despite the apparent lack of any propellant. The drive is purported to work by pushing microwaves through a cone, thereby creating more…
user11643
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Can you use a normal Ball Point pen in space?
Similar to this question Did NASA invest a million dollars in the research of a space pen, when the USSR simply used a pencil? , but on another claim not asked/answered in the other answer.
When NASA first started sending astronauts into space,…
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Was this pile of code written by a single team of software engineers?
This article reads:
[This is a] picture of her next to the code she and her colleagues wrote for the Apollo 11 guidance computer that made the moon landing possible. [..] To clarify, there are no other kinds of printouts, like debugging printouts,…
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Has NASA discovered a possible "warp-like" drive using the EmDrive?
A number of stories have been breaking on the internet from various sources (e.g. The Escapist, Sputnik News, The Daily Galaxy, IFL Science! etc.) with claims along the following from The Escapist,
Skip ahead to this month, where we have a…
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Are the Apollo astronauts experiencing heart disease at a higher than average rate?
ArsTechnica used a headline (and this has been reported elsewhere):
Apollo astronauts dying of heart disease at 4-5X the rate of normal humans
What is the evidence relating to the headline's claim?
This story is based on a sample of 77 astronauts…
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Does the STS103-734-73 NASA picture show another spacecraft?
UFO News reported in July 2014 that an older image taken of the Hubble Telescope is on a spacecraft (a "craft").
The image was taken in December 1999,, on STS-103, a repair mission on which Space Shuttle Discovery flew to the highest-ever orbit in…
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Is the Great Wall of China visible from space?
Is the Great Wall of China visible from space?
This is quoted every now and then in film and television (e.g. The Truman Show), purportedly placing it among a rare class of single object that are both man-made and visible from space.
ANNOUNCER:…
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Is MarsOne a hoax, or are their claims reasonable?
I was reading a little on spaceexploration.se and I came across the following comments:
The amount of nonsense from Mars One is quite astounding. The number of people who have swallowed that nonsense hook, line, and sinker, is even more astounding.…
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Are North Korea launching satellites to provide cover for testing of long-range missile technology?
I see recently on the news that the US, Japan, and South Korea are opposed to North Korea's satellite launch because, they claim, it's a cover-up for testing long-range missile technology.
From the BBC:
North Korea's space programme causes panic…
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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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Is the Worldview or any other satellite series going to provide global daily coverage at 30 centimetre resolution?
A report broadcast on the TV BBC News Channel on 2018-11-01 at approximately 20:55 GMT (not available online) claims that soon, satellites will provide "daily 30 centimetre resolution global coverage". The report was made in an item on counting…
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