The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day represents a collective gift for troubled mankind.
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Steve Lamoreaux: Colonize the Moon Before Romantic Notion of Mars
By William J. Furney It’s not just a big world out there, but an enormous, gargantuan universe that’s so impossibly large — and growing — that it’s barely possible for
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Flushed with New Space Successes
By William J. Furney The lucky crew aboard the International Space Station are to get a new, multimillion-dollar loo. It’s costing the American taxpayer $23 million and will enable those
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Half a Century Later, Is It Lunacy to Return to the Moon?
By William J. Furney Humans have not set foot on their nearest celestial satellite for half a century, and does anyone really care? Fifty years ago today, two American men
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On Top of the World, and Star-Gazing, in Tenerife
By William J. Furney Why are observatories painted white? Wouldn’t a natural shade of green be better, so they’d blend in with the environment and not stick out like an
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Branson Hopes Cosmic Adventure Will Be Ace — But Will Space Tourism Fly?
By William J. Furney Richard Branson is playing tennis four times a day. The wealthy British businessman, who is nearing 70, is doing this, we are told, to get fit
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