NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore
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NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as “Type A” mishap, says agency made mistakes
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Voyager Technologies CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved
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The engineer who invented the Mars Rover suspension...in his garage
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NASA will soon find out if the Perseverance rover can really persevere on Mars
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A faster-than-light spaceship would actually look a lot like Star Trek's Enterprise
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Have you ever designed/created a spaceship for fiction, RPGs, etc? How did you do it?
I'm doing some sci-fi worldbuilding that requires spaceships. So I am looking for inspiration not only on the spaceships themselves but also on how other people design them! Thanks!
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Baikonur's crewed launch facilities suffer damage, expected to impact International Space Station operations
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Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
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Boeing's Starliner to return to International Space Station in cargo-only capacity for now
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NASA re-opens the human lander contract for Artemis 3
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Blue Origin sticks first New Glenn rocket landing and launches NASA spacecraft
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Astronauts stranded in space after their return capsule is struck by mystery object in orbit
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Starship was doomed from the beginning
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An interstellar comet flew past Mars, and spacecraft took pictures
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SpaceX's Starship completes successful test flight after a year of mishaps
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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in setback to Elon Musk's Mars mission
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A better way to turn solar sails
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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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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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The maverick pioneers of rocketry outside government programs
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The disappearance of Gaia -- European Space Agency spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025
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How a helicopter built of phone parts survived Mars for three years
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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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Argonaut: a first European lunar lander
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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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A rover retrospective: Turning trials to triumphs in 2024
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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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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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Stranded astronauts make first public statement since being left behind on International Space Station
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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 decides to bring Starliner spacecraft back to Earth without crew | Crew to return on SpaceX Dragon Feb 2025
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SpaceX to return Boeing's Starliner astronauts from space next year
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We’re building nuclear spaceships again—this time for real
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NASA’s Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth
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Why it’s so challenging to land upright on the Moon
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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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After three years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission ends
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Astrobotic Technology says its Moon landing attempt is in jeopardy because of an engine problem
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US military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission expected to last years
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NASA's 3D-printed detonation engine revs up for four minutes in breakthrough test
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A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely
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NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft twelve billion miles away
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