Space station modules were assembled in orbit over years

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It is essentially the world's most stressful IKEA project, built entirely in a lethal vacuum. Astronauts spent decades clicking metal tubes together while floating, just so humanity could have a place to perform zero-gravity somersaults.

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station experience sixteen sunrises and sunsets every single day because their vehicle is traveling at a blistering seventeen thousand five hundred miles per hour.

Why did engineers redesign Japanese bullet trains to have incredibly long, strange-looking, duck-bill snouts?

Flight data recorders, universally known to the terrified flying public as black boxes, are actually painted bright international orange so investigators can find them in the smoldering wreckage of a crash.

Modern commercial airplanes are engineered to be entirely capable of flying upside down, but the critical fuel pumps rely strictly on gravity to feed the engines, meaning an…

Why some subway stations are built like gentle hills

Why is it statistically much deadlier to wear a seatbelt on a bullet train than riding completely unbuckled?

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