The four astronauts assigned to fly Artemis 2 around the moon have expressed confidence in the Orion spacecraft, but the mission’s true verdict won’t come from crew praise or simulator fidelity. It will come from the heat shield. When Orion slams back into Earth’s atmosphere at nearly 25,000 miles per hour, the redesigned thermal protection […]

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Refusing help rarely comes from self-sufficiency. It comes from early lessons about what accepting something actually cost. The neuroscience of learned helplessness explains why the pattern runs so deep — and why unlearning it is slower and quieter than most people expect.

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NASA has approved the Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project and contracted SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch the European Space Agency’s Mars rover in late 2028, even as the White House’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal would zero out funding for the same project. The $175.7 million launch contract, announced April 16, commits the […]

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Envy arrives as raw telemetry — the unedited signal of what you actually want, delivered before pride has time to clean up the story. Reading it honestly is uncomfortable. Not reading it is more expensive.

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NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel.

NorthStar Earth and Space plans to raise funds to expand the space-based sensor network behind its space situational awareness business by merging with Viking Acquisition Corp.

China’s Shenzhou-21 astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, installing debris-protection hardware and inspecting the orbital outpost.

The Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea became the deadliest maritime corridor in South and Southeast Asia last year, with reports indicating nearly 900 Rohingya refugees dead or missing in 2025. The figure appears to mark the highest annual death toll for Rohingya sea crossings, a grim milestone that has led advocates to compare […]

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Over-preparation isn't anxiety — it's a private policy response to a specific remembered humiliation. Understanding the mechanism changes what actually fixes it.

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As the war in Gaza grinds past its second year, diplomatic efforts have repeatedly produced ceasefire frameworks that fail to translate into protection for civilians on the ground. The January 2025 truce — brokered with heavy US and Qatari involvement — offered the most concrete hope yet. But within weeks of its implementation, reports of […]

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