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NASA’s Partners Are Complicating Plans to Build ISS Replacement
NASA’s plans to retire the International Space Station and replace it with commercial projects are not kaput, they’re just changing. Wrinkles are now appearing in Blue Origin’s plans for Orbital Reef, while Northrop Grumman’s unnamed space station project might not even happen. Ars Technica reports that Northrop Grumman may be ending its contract with NASA…
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This Spacesuit’s ‘Take Me Home’ Button Could Rescue Astronauts Adrift In Space
Imagine the frightening scenario – dramatised in movies such as Gravity and 2001 – where an astronaut gets sick or disoriented during a spacewalk. Confused, and on the cusp of losing consciousness, she struggles to operate the suit’s jetpack. Unable to get her bearings, and without a tether to keep her secured to the space…