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The Challenges of Building Human Habitats in Space – Interesting Engineering
A space station that rotates to provide artificial gravity is a time-honored idea, but what are the challenges of building such a structure?
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero crater on Mars, an occasion that was marked with photos of the surface and a video of the landing. In the coming weeks and months, it will join its sister mission Curiosity in the ongoing search for evidence of past (and maybe even present!) life on the Red Planet.
In October of 2021, NASA’s next-generation infrared observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will be launched. As the most advanced and complex space telescope…
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