r/spaceflight • • 16h ago

How could the Voyager's golden record idea be improved with modern technology?

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If we were to send up a new interstellar item designed to convey information about humankind, what scientific developments have been made in the last 50 years that would change how much/what types of data we could store on it?


r/spaceflight • • 3h ago

Shenzhou 5, the first human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program, launched on this date in 2003. China became the third country to have independent human spaceflight capability; also the last time an astronaut was launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission

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r/spaceflight • • 1h ago

Only 3 countries can independently send humans to space: the US, Russia, and China. Today is the 23rd anniversary of China joining this group. Which country should be the fourth and why?

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Right now, these are the only three countries with independent human spaceflight capabilities. Several others have ambitious space programs, but developing a crewed spacecraft, launch systems, life support, and safe reentry is an enormous challenge.

If you had to bet on one country becoming the fourth, which would you pick, and why? And how many more years will it take?


r/spaceflight • • 16h ago

"We Have a Problem...": How TV Covered Space Disasters (Adam Martyn, 2026)

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r/spaceflight • • 11h ago

The US military’s announcement last month that it has deployed space control weapons has raised new concerns about conflicts that could litter orbits with debris. Alexander William Salter revisits an older paper of his to see how his assessment of the issue stood the test of time

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