'A City on Mars' is a reality check for anyone dreaming about life on the Red Planet
Strange moon of asteroid Dinkinesh is weirder than thought | Space Quiz! How many flights has NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed on Mars? | 'A City on Mars' reality check for dreams of living off Earth
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On Nov. 2, project scientists with the Lucy mission announced the first flyby came with a surprise: Dinkinesh, or 'Dinky,' appears to be not one asteroid, but two. Lucy was able to observe that Dinkinesh is a binary system, meaning there is a small natural satellite in orbit around it.
It wasn't until maybe a year before we were done writing - and we wrote for four years - that we decided this book is actually about why space settlements aren't coming soon.
The two brightest objects in the night sky - dazzling Venus and a lovely waning crescent moon - will be the chief celestial attraction in the predawn sky on Thursday, Nov. 9.
The first spaceport in continental Europe is operational. The opening of Andøya Spaceport is an important milestone in the journey of Isar Aerospace to the launchpad. It will be the starting point for the company's first test flight of its two-stage launch vehicle, Spectrum.
"SpaceX team aboard the recovery vessel Doug in the Atlantic securing a payload fairing half, which has supported 13 missions to date, after last night's Starlink launch from Florida," the company wrote in a post on X.
The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity stayed aloft that day for 48 seconds, covering 23 feet (7 meters) of Mars ground in the process. Then, the rotorcraft was at it again on Nov. 3 with an even briefer sortie: It lasted 23 seconds and involved a horizontal movement of just 2 feet (0.6 m), according to the mission's flight log.
"Elon Musk says we'll have boots on Mars in 2029 and a million-person city is possible by twenty or thirty years later. We'll assume he's got space babies worked out for now so we can deal with a bigger problem: space sucks."
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