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🌗 The Moon

• Why explore the Moon

• Rocket Science 101: The Moon as a rocket platform

• How NASA and Chandrayaan discovered water on the Moon

• How the Apollo missions transformed our understanding of the Moon’s origin

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🪐 Solar System

• Why explore Venus

• Why explore asteroids, comets, and other small worlds

• Why explore Neptune

• NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft revealed how Mars lost its atmosphere and water

• First results from Voyagers, the NASA spacecraft at the edge of interstellar space

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🚀 Space Tech

• Space grade electronics: How NASA’s Juno survives near Jupiter

• Experiments at the International Space Station that paved the way to living on Mars and beyond

• Interviewing Tory Bruno, leading the company that has launched every NASA mission to Mars

• Gravity assist: The simple physics trick that’s allowed humanity to explore deep space

• The giant leap for humanity was not stepping on the Moon but getting to Earth orbit

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🌌 Universe

• Timeline for life until the end of the Universe

• Are the Universe's smallest stars promising places for life?

• The most extreme planets scientists have discovered in our galaxy

• From Hipparchus to Gaia, the story of finding our place among billions of stars

• Interviewing neutrino-hunting particle physicist Kate Scholberg

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🇮🇳 ISRO

• Space science missions ISRO will launch in the near future

• India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?

• ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is creating the highest resolution map of the Moon

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🧐 Opinion

• India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?

• ISRO needs night survival technologies for future Moon missions and beyond

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🎲 Meta

• Space memes

• I saw a rocket launch!

• Start the new year by realizing how insignificant we are

• Can there be a galactic empire?

• How science fiction helps us contemplate reality

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📡 Podcast: Spacebound

• Interviewing Tory Bruno, leading the company that has launched every NASA mission to Mars

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