By Frank White As SpaceX, Virgin, and Blue Origin begin to offer spaceflights to people who are not trained astronauts, the question has arisen as to where space begins and who is really an astronaut? NASA set the boundary of space at 50 miles (80 km) above the surface of the Earth. This definition allowed…
Above: Orbital Inc, formally known as Orbital Assembly, has been awarded a $1.7 contract from the United States Space Force to develop rapidly deployable, On Orbit structural technologies to support many types of electronic equipment. The United States Space Force is a separate and distinct branch of the armed services, organized under the Department of…
Earth is humanity’s first space community. What is, or will be, the next space community?
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