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    NASA's 1st female chief engineer at Kennedy Space Center wants to put a space station around the moon (exclusive)

    The realism in that movie started after he was left behind, the events prior had no basis in reality and would never happen. The maximum force of the wind of a bad Martian sandstorm is best compared to the force of a toddlers sneeze as felt from 10 feet away. That's NASA's comparison, by the...
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    Astronauts that hibernate on long spaceflights is not just for sci-fi. We could test it in 10 years.

    Interesting. Last I had read, "sleeping for months without eating or drinking" was a cartoon version of hibernation, that real hibernating animals tend to get up once a day or so for an hour, usually grab a quick bite, etc. To put a crew of astronauts into this deep a hibernation, up to a year...