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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Space yays
« on: May 25, 2024, 06:41:59 PM »
I think that so far, the private space launch companies have only sent people outside the atmosphere for missions that can be measured in hours. Its only projects like Apollo and the Soviet, NASA, and Chinese space stations which put people outside the atmosphere for weeks or months and faced issues like muscle degradation in free fall or how to recycle water with near 100% effectiveness. Of course, most of these issues would get easier with space launches that cost hundreds of dollars per kilo not $10,000 per kilo. Eg. one of the solutions for solar storms outside the magnetosphere is to give a spacecraft a 'storm shelter' of materials which resist those nasty particles, and have the crew hide inside when NASA tells them a solar storm is coming ... but that costs mass.