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"Both contractors are already required to validate reusable heavy-lift launch capabilities—technologies essential for transporting mass beyond #LEO, whether toward the #Moon 🌙 or #Mars 🔴". The vote was 19–9 arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/

Ars Technica · After convincing senators he supports Artemis, Isaacman nomination advancesBy Eric Berger
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July 📆 2024 The outlook for slowing incoming vehicles has improved, compared to a decade ago. #NASA’s #LEO Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (#LOFTID) took place in 📆 2022, successfully inflating a 6-meter- (20-foot-) diameter aerodynamic decelerator system in Earth’s stratosphere, which has a density similar to #Mars🔴 atmosphere. Additionally, engineers now are optimistic about using thrusters for what is called supersonic #retropropulsion planetary.org/articles/challen

First Humans on Mars (Artist's Concept)
The Planetary SocietyChallenges facing the human exploration of MarsFrom the dangers of radiation to the complications of landing a crewed spacecraft, there are myriad technical challenges facing human exploration of Mars.

Ich komm nicht mehr weg von #DuckDuckGo. Hab die letzten Tage #MullvadLeta als Standard ausprobiert, aber ich bin komme nicht klar, weil ich abhängig von den #DuckDuckGo-Abkürzungen bin. 💉
Einfach nach "Blabla !w" suchen und es kommt direkt die #Wikipedia-Seite von "Blabla". Oder "Ding !gi" und es werden die #Google-Image Ergebnisse angezeigt. Oder "damn !leo" für ne Übersetzung mit #leo. Ich kann nicht mehr ohne. Locked in. 🤷 #Bangs #privacy #SearchEngine #SuchMaschine
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@planet4589 : "When I was a kid 🧒, it was #LEO. Now, the frontier is out near the #asteroid belt, and the #Moon and #Mars are becoming part of where humanity just hangs out, maybe not yet as people, but with #robots. Meanwhile, #LEO is so normalized that it doesn’t take a #SpaceAgency to deal with it. You just call #SpaceX. Thousand years from now, perhaps more people live off Earth 🌌 than on it" cearkadia.edu.pl/jonathan-mcdo

cearkadia · Jonathan McDowell on Retiring From Harvard and Leaving the U.S. - cearkadiaJonathan McDowell is a go-to expert for all things spaceflight. Thousands of subscribers read his monthly Space Report, and far more people have seen him