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Having an itch on your nose while wearing a pressurized bubble is pure torture. Engineers brilliant enough to land humans on another celestial body duct-taped…
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Getting a spacecraft the size of a school bus into orbit is terribly tricky. Engineers wildly hinge the delicate solar arrays utilizing complex geometrical…
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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…
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Crawler-transporters built by NASA to carry the Saturn V rockets and Space Shuttles to the launch pad are still the largest self-powered land vehicles in the…
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NASA doesn't do anything quietly. The three main engines on the rear of the now-retired Space Shuttle combined with the solid rocket boosters to create 7.8…
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If your car looks like a roller skate, there's a good reason for it. Nicolas Hayek, the mastermind behind Swatch watches, wanted to build a vehicle that was…
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