Cramped quarters, no privacy, and the stress of working together every day. Psychology, more than aerospace engineering, may be the key to sending human crews to Mars. This is Mars on Earth, a station that was built to help us learn how to live on t

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Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I began as a calculating machine in France in 1642. Although I was young I could simplify difficult sums. I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical mac

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NASA Chooses Boeing, SpaceX to Fly Astronauts 美国航天局联手波音及SpaceX两公司共建太空船 Three years after the United States ended the space shuttle program, the American space agency today announced the return of human space flight

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NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Arrives at Mars 美国宇航局的Maven飞船到达火星 NASAs newest Mars probe, called MAVEN, has successfully entered its designated orbit around the red planet. Scientists will use its sophisticated instruments to try to

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Chaotic Orbits Could Cause Catastrophic Collision Isaac Newton said, I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. He meant that while people can be unpredictable, the planets are just the oppositethey glide through sp

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New images sent back by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its first full day operating in the Martian northern polar region showed most of its science instruments in good health. The one snag on the lander occurred when the protective sheath around t

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Don: Hey, Yael, Have you heard? We've discovered two new oceans? Yael: Where? D: On Mars. Well, they aren't there any longer, but they were there a few billion years ago. Y: I thought scientists weren't sure if Mars had oceans or not. D: They weren't

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