SpaceX's Starship completes successful test flight after a year of mishaps
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Could a space traveler accelerate at 1g forever?
I was reading this Reddit post and was curious about whether the passengers of this theoretical spaceship could experience 1g of acceleration forever assuming the ship has an infinite fuel source....
I was reading this Reddit post and was curious about whether the passengers of this theoretical spaceship could experience 1g of acceleration forever assuming the ship has an infinite fuel source.
They shouldn’t be able to pass the speed of light relative to an outside observer, but is there some phenomenon where the passengers can feel like they are accelerating forever?
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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in setback to Elon Musk's Mars mission
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Wernher von Braun’s record on civil rights
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NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts
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A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers executed a remote fix
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Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against SpaceX's Starlinks
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The Energia-Buran, as detailed by an eyewitness to the Soviet spaceplane before its destruction
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Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
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An engineer says he’s found a way to overcome Earth’s gravity
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SpaceX launches private Fram2 astronauts on historic spaceflight over Earth's poles
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The maverick pioneers of rocketry outside government programs
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There was a flawless space mission on Thursday — it wasn’t SpaceX
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Starship program hits another speed bump with second consecutive failure
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Private spacecraft Blue Ghost lands successfully on moon
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US Space Force official warns there is not enough room to prep satellites as commercial and government missions ramp up
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SpaceX says its Starship rocket broke up mid-flight as debris videos emerge online
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Firefly and ispace prepare for lunar landing (launch targeted Jan 15, 2025!)
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Rocket Lab asks NASA to open up Mars Sample Return to commercial competition
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NASA launches Europa Clipper mission to investigate namesake Jupiter's moon, a potentially habitable ocean world
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Starship Launch 5 successfully caught by launch tower
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SpaceX launches fifth Starship and catches Super Heavy booster
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47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades
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NASA’s Europa Clipper mission looked doomed. Could engineers save it?
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Boeing’s Starliner will perform a unique ‘breakout burn’ as it returns to earth on friday, without astronauts
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NASA's Boeing crew flight test re-entry and landing
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Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing's Starliner — and the window for a return flight is closing
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SpaceX accomplishes first soft splashdown of Starship, Super Heavy Booster on Flight 4 mission
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Boeing launches long-delayed Starliner capsule with two NASA astronauts on board
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The dearMoon project and mission has officially been cancelled
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NASA finds more issues with Boeing’s Starliner, but crew launch set for June 1
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The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely
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Faulty valve scuttles Starliner’s first crew launch
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On-demand nutrient production system for long-duration space missions
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NASA’s Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth
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Fifty years later, this Apollo-era antenna still talks to Voyager 2
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United Launch Alliance to launch final Delta Heavy IV rocket today (in less than an hour, 1315 ET)
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Spacesuits need a major upgrade for the next phase of exploration
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Quick thinking and a stroke of luck averted a moon lander disaster for Intuitive Machines
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US returns to the Moon with commercial moon landing (gifted link)
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Death, lonely death
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Flipped bit could mark the end of Voyager 1‘s interstellar mission
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US military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission expected to last years
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I was scared to say this to NASA... (but I said it anyway)
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The bodily indignities of the space life
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NASA to launch NASA+, a free streaming service
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NASA detects signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact due to wrong command
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NASA’s Voyager 2 is experiencing an unplanned ‘communications pause’ expected to last until October 15
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Why not Mars
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NASA prepares for historic asteroid sample delivery on Sept. 24, 2023
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