Questions tagged [space-flight]
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Could the USA have a secret colony on Mars?
I've read a number of articles suggesting that the USA has a Mars colony, including (if I recall correctly, but I can't find the link now) one where an official in China stated that they believed the USA had a secret military base on Mars, and…
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Did Robert Brownlee express a belief that a manhole cover was launched into space by a nuclear test?
According to Snopes:
the above-mentioned Brownlee doesn't believe the metal cap launched into space.
However Business Insider states:
Robert Brownlee, an astrophysicist who designed the nuclear test in question, told Insider the unbelievable…
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Is there faked Soviet footage of Yuri Gargarin's space flight?
In this clip Joe Rogan says there is faked footage from the Russians of the Yuri Gargarin's space flight. He uses this as an example of "prior-work" for faking the Apollo space landing. I'm not sure which footage he's talking about, but has any…
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Did Jim Lovell accidentally swear at Mission Control?
The movie Apollo 13 famously depicts a tense scene from relatively early on in the accident where the astronauts were having diffucilty controlling the space craft due to the centre of gravity being off.
The dialogue in the scene in question is as…
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Are Mars One sending people on one-way missions to mars, starting in 2024?
The organization, Mars One claims that:
Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Crews of four will depart every two years, starting in 2024.
A key part of the success of such a mission seems to rely on the following:
On…
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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
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In human history, more people have been to space than visited every nation.
Is that true?
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Does grabbing a fidget spinner in zero G cause your body to tumble rapidly?
Techly have posted a video they attribute to NASA.
It shows ISS astronauts looking at a fidget spinner floating in space and grabbing it. After a jump-cut, they are shown tumbling (rotating along all sorts of axes, not necessarily the same as the…
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Was Gagarin the thirteenth person to be sent to space?
I read this Russian article today that claims that Yuri Gagarin (the first person to journey into outer space) was, in fact, the thirteenth attempt that was finally successful.
Is that correct?
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Did the Soyuz 1 mission fail because of an ignored decimal point?
I am from an Eastern bloc nation. In my childhood I was taught that the Soyuz 1 mission failed because a decimal point was ignored during the pre-flight check, which was the cause of the parachute failure.
Sources are abundant in my native language…
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Did the Stuxnet virus attack the International Space Station?
Over at Extreme Tech
Last year, news broke that a virus sabotaged the Iranian uranium enrichment program. It seemed all too convenient at the time — and as it turned out, the virus, Stuxnet, was actually engineered by the United States and Israel.…
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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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What is happening in this photo?
Yesterday I saw the following photo in a book, which is taken during the Apollo 12 mission:
I see at least some significant odd things about this picture:
Why the directions of shadows do not totally agree with the light source?
Why the horizon…
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Did Curiosity rover land on Mars?
The Curiosity rover landed on Mars using an extremely complex system, system involving a sky crane and using pictures from the orbiter to maneuver to a flat landing spot. The 1 ton car (equivalent to 300 kg in Mars' gravity) was suspended from a…
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