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fromArs Technica
1 day ago

100 years later, where is Robert Goddard's first liquid-fuel rocket?

Robert Goddard's two-second liquid-fueled rocket flight on March 16, 1926, revolutionized spaceflight by proving liquid fuel could propel spacecraft, enabling future human space exploration and lunar missions.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

There's a new space race will the billionaires win?

If there is one thing we can rely on in this world, it is human hubris, and space and astronomy are no exception. The ancients believed that everything revolved around Earth. In the 16th century, Copernicus and his peers overturned that view with the heliocentric model. Since then, telescopes and spacecraft have revealed just how insignificant we are. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, each star a sun
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