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NASA's Parker Solar Probe: Why It's Hard to Reach the Sun - The Atlantic

Well it actually is kinda easy to reach the sun, since Mercury and Venus have short orbits and can be continuously used for slingshots  



Cool photo

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I hope it launches this time. I'm so tired.

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Launch!

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Third stage potentially having issues...

edt: maybe ok!

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Really interesting video. I didn't know anything about this mission.

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Breaking: @SpaceX Crew Dragon access arm moved to Pad 39A for installation. pic.twitter.com/cE14AzKBiR

— Stephen C. Smith (@WordsmithFL) August 15, 2018

itshappening.gif !!!

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India plans to send humans to orbit in 2022.

Pretty cool how fast their space program is developing.

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Colorado School of Mines now has a space mining degree, the first of its kind.

Future!

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It blows my mind that the amount of people that think SpaceX isn't impressive has increased over time.

I thought for sure that the Falcon Heavy launch would mostly be the end of the denial yet nope.

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Nice!

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Future!!!

Looks like a video game screenshot. We halo now.

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