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Boeing's problems extend into orbit. Is space big business for them?

by Daniel Ackerman
Jul 31, 2024
Boeing has faced scrutiny for the safety of its 737 MAX planes, but problems with its Starliner crew module have also stranded astronauts at the ISS.
Above, Boeing's Starliner launches at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 5. Issues with the Starliner have left NASA astronauts stuck on the International Space Station.
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Supplying the astronauts on the ISS isn't cheap. Here's a glimpse at what it involves.

by Daniel Ackerman
Jul 30, 2024
Consumers complain that grocery shopping on Earth is expensive, but at least it doesn't require a spaceflight.
NASA spends $3.1 billion on the International Space Station every year.
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In the novel ‘Delta-v,’ asteroid mining gets us to move to space

by Molly Wood
Apr 24, 2019
... maybe the ultimate climate change adaptation.
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U.S. space economy set to blast off in 2019

by Molly Wood
Jan 2, 2019
Will America be leading the way?
Virgin Galactic's SpaceshipTwo takes off for a suborbital test flight of the VSS Unity on December 13, 2018, in Mojave, California. 
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Imagining the everyday economy of the moon

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 28, 2017
Andy Weir, author of "The Martian" and now "Artemis," on what colonizing space might look like.
A plane flies past the moon at sunset on March 3, 2015, in London.
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The economics of colonizing Mars

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Oct 24, 2017
Would it be profitable? One science fiction writer isn't so sure.
An artist's conception of the Phoenix Mars lander on the red planet.
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