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A trip to Mars using current propulsion technology takes several months. During that time, astronauts will be exposed to solar and cosmic radiation. In Iowa, a group of undergrads is working the problem.
https://www.space.com/amp/magnetic-space-shield-mars-mission.html
Insight picks up the first quake on a celestial body other than Earth or the Moon.
What Scratching the Surface is really about.
background: illustration by Luis Peres for Scratching the Surface
Here’s the most thorough evaluation of the the latest push for the Moon that I’ve found. The TL;DR is that the winds are all over the place. This push is likely to fail. But we should root for it anyway because it’s shaking things up.
Wowza! He’s talking about an Orion atop a ULA second stage atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. We live in interesting times.
Ars Technica 