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41 votes
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Are there foods that astronauts are explicitly never allowed to eat?

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8 answers
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Could a spacecraft spin so fast that it spontaneously deconstructs?

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6 answers
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If I Wanted to get Involved in Space Exploration-- What Should/Could I do?

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3 answers
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What would happen if a satellite took a direct hit from a coronal mass ejection (CME)?

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Why would oxygen be stored as a super critical fluid?

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Is Mars more at risk than Earth for asteroid collisions?

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How were the Flight Journals of the Apollo missions originally transcribed/recorded?

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Is it really ~648.69 km/s delta-v to "land" on the surface of the Sun?

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Who is accountable for damage caused by the debris field of a successful ASAT test

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Are there any known atmospheres that would support traditional combustion engines?

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5 answers
634 views

What are some practices of space exploration that are no longer acceptable?

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4 answers
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Why is the US building a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G)?

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1 answer
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Have water bears ever been studied on the ISS or in Space?

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Have Air-breathing Engines ever been used on a reentry vehicle, could they be?

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1 answer
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How much total lunar mass remains viable for analysis here on Earth?

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2 answers
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Whats the protocol if two satellites collide?

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3 answers
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Have there been any setbacks due to COVID-19-- like delays or data-loss?

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Were the Apollo broadcasts recorded locally on the LM?

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Why do most Measurements in Space use km?

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Worst damage incurred during a rendevouz or docking operation?

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1 answer
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Problems as a result of clock drift that have occurred in space?

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Have any probes / spacecraft used GPU hardware? If so, what for?

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2 answers
809 views

How does the pattern on the MarCo cubesat's antenna boost data-transmission?

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1 answer
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Methane on Mars - Can we locate the source?

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3 answers
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CubeSat Design Requirements and Safety Restrictions?

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1 answer
767 views

Does a high staging number have diminishing returns? Is there a way to address that mathematically?

9 votes
1 answer
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How would you identify when an object in a Lissajous orbit needs station keeping?

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2 answers
463 views

What happens after a crew finishes putting out a fire?

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1 answer
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How does the sunlight affect the height of the atmosphere?

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Have there been any probes launched that were actually clusters of probes?