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    SpaceX to launch 60 Star satellites for megaconstellation tonight. Here's how to watch.

    With alI the recently published articles about astronomers (and others) wringing their hands and rending their garments over the 'sky pollution' that Starlink will cause, I just learned that, with all 12,000 satellites in orbit, only EIGHT will be visible over any given point and any given time...
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    Why does SpaceX's historic astronaut flight for NASA have two commanders?

    There are also TWO Russians on the ISS. Did you forget about them?