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How feasible is a manned flight to Apophis in 2029 using Artemis or Starship?
Awarded Sep 28 at 1:10
Why would astronauts need a wristwatch and a separate timer?
Awarded Sep 23 at 6:35
Reasons behind Soviets Using Prolog Programming Language for Buran Space Shuttle?
Awarded Sep 19 at 10:42
What is this cylinder on the Martian surface at the Viking 2 landing site?
Awarded Sep 17 at 22:18
This ISS trash deployment looks more like 2 feet than 2 inches per second, was it too fast or are these articles incorrect?
Awarded Sep 12 at 13:04
How did STS-27 survive reentry after losing a thermal tile?
Awarded Sep 9 at 23:56
Do all artificial satellites have engines?
Awarded Sep 8 at 23:03
Why does GPS need the fourth satellite?
Awarded Sep 8 at 10:40
Why can't lunar rovers survive long duration nights?
Awarded Sep 8 at 6:49
Why do we need to make probes land on other planets or moons?
Awarded Aug 24 at 18:51
Are the things I'm seeing satellites?
Awarded Aug 23 at 10:52
Why is the UKSA not called the Ministry of Space?
Awarded Aug 15 at 12:07
What is the purpose of the aft skirt on the Space Shuttle and SLS Solid Rocket Boosters?
Awarded Aug 4 at 10:18
Elon Musk's ITS Travel Time to Mars Estimate
Awarded Jul 21 at 19:42
Does NASA have spacecraft that are specifically made for orbiting around the Sun?
Awarded Jul 18 at 7:34
Why does this journey to the moon take so long?
Awarded Jul 17 at 16:56
Going over the Apollo fuel numbers and I have many questions
Awarded Jul 14 at 18:57
How dangerous is tossing equipment off the ISS?
Awarded Jun 26 at 17:42
How feasible would this mission to Proxima Centauri be?
Awarded Jun 22 at 18:21
Were cosmonauts equipped with poison pills?
Awarded Jun 15 at 8:43
Was there any truth that the Columbia Shuttle Disaster had a contribution from wrong angle of entry?
Awarded Jun 12 at 19:58
Are artificial satellites completely sealed or open to space?
Awarded Jun 6 at 1:33
Why doesn’t SpaceX sell Raptor engines commercially?
Awarded Jun 5 at 8:34
How often is duct tape used during crewed space missions?
Awarded Jun 1 at 20:35
What was the purpose of the small red tank attached to the Titan-Centaur launcher?
Awarded Jun 1 at 13:11
Why is using a space elevator cheaper than rocket power?
Awarded May 25 at 18:19
How do space probes find their way and how much fuel do they use to travel?
Awarded May 25 at 15:47
Apollo: what was the big deal?
Awarded May 20 at 0:47
Apollo: what was the big deal?
Awarded May 18 at 18:34
Did Apollo astronauts spend any time on the lunar surface during lunar night?
Awarded May 17 at 14:35
Can you make out the shape of the ISS with the unaided eye as it passes overhead?
Awarded May 17 at 13:41
Is there someone continually monitoring the Voyager spacecraft?
Awarded May 3 at 23:11
How would the Saturn V have differed if the first stage was also LH2/LOX?
Awarded May 3 at 22:19
Why would Sun-synchronous orbits be impossible around perfectly spherical bodies?
Awarded May 3 at 20:42
Has the cause of a rocket failure ever been mis-identified, such that another launch failed due to the same problem?
Awarded May 1 at 5:46
Has the cause of a rocket failure ever been mis-identified, such that another launch failed due to the same problem?
Awarded Apr 30 at 3:27
What stages of distress occur to a person when there is a small hull breach in space?
Awarded Apr 28 at 20:55
Wouldn't it make sense to use parachutes for aborting test flights rather than destroying the whole rocket?
Awarded Apr 26 at 21:35
Why is the Falcon Heavy first launch being given such a risk of failure?
Awarded Apr 25 at 17:15
Are there any studies about "ping pong" cyclers between gas giants?
Awarded Apr 25 at 9:49
Is the failure to separate Starship from the Super Heavy booster a "dumb failure" and does it tell something about the project reliability?
Awarded Apr 25 at 2:17
On April 20 2023, how did Super Heavy burn for 40% longer than planned?
Awarded Apr 24 at 20:57
By my calculation the cumulative mass of Mercury, plus Venus, plus Earth's moon, plus Mars, plus Mars' moons, total 99% of Earth's mass. Am I correct?
Awarded Apr 24 at 18:10
What's the technology behind the floating landing pads?
Awarded Apr 24 at 15:57
Why was Space X's Starship blown up?
Awarded Apr 23 at 16:02
Why are tunnels not popular considerations for Lunar or Mars colonies?
Awarded Apr 17 at 8:51
How much technical information is given to astronauts on a spaceflight? How much of it is left to the control center?
Awarded Apr 4 at 19:46
How much technical information is given to astronauts on a spaceflight? How much of it is left to the control center?
Awarded Apr 3 at 19:16
How close was the ISS to running out of supplies after the failure of CRS-7?
Awarded Mar 29 at 19:45
Why aren't the radiators on the ISS straight?
Awarded Mar 29 at 17:21
Why aren't the radiators on the ISS straight?
Awarded Mar 29 at 16:33
What causes a satellite's orbit to decay?
Awarded Mar 29 at 15:36
Why aren't the radiators on the ISS straight?
Awarded Mar 29 at 12:32
Why is the atmospheric pressure on Venus so high?
Awarded Mar 28 at 3:41
Why didn't NASA simulate the conditions leading to the 1202 alarm during Apollo 11?
Awarded Mar 23 at 7:01
Is the technology behind the Shuttle's heat-shielding tiles used in any product today?
Awarded Mar 13 at 22:40
Maximum speed reachable by Saturn V
Awarded Mar 11 at 23:51
How did theorists determine that the atmosphere attenuates enough to support unpowered orbits?
Awarded Mar 9 at 0:11
Why is the Delta IV Heavy taller than the Delta IV Medium?
Awarded Feb 24 at 23:19
Would the Space Shuttle have been able to carry the Hubble Space Telescope back to Earth had it been necessary?
Awarded Feb 13 at 22:36
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