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July/August 2019
The space issue
50 years after Apollo 11, space technologies have radically changed life on Earth–and we’re still just at the beginning.
Letter from the Editor
Editor’s letter: where to?
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Features

Space

What Neil Armstrong got wrong

Space technology has changed the world—but not in the way the dreamers of the 1960s imagined it would
An image of an Apollo XI astronaut on the moon
Space
Five schemes for cheaper space launches—and five cautionary tales
Illustrations of space vessels in the categories of 5 new plans and 5 failures
Space
Does the world need a 3D-printed rocket?
An image of a 3D printed rocket piece
Space
Can SpaceX and Blue Origin best a decades-old Russian rocket engine design?
Photo of a rocket taking off
Space
The number of satellites orbiting Earth could quintuple in the next decade
View of earth from SpaceX's Starlink
Space
Soon, satellites will be able to watch you everywhere all the time
Photo illustration of a multitude of satellites
Space
How to fight a war in space (and get away with it)
An illustration of a missile in space
Space
Who gets to send radio waves in space?
A conceptual illustration showing a "Please take a number" dispenser in space
Space
All the new Mars missions being launched in 2020
Photo of Mars's surface
Space
The case for sending people back to the moon
An illustration showing a question mark and the moon
Space
The world’s smallest big rocket company
David Masten
Space
How the asteroid-mining bubble burst
An illustration showing US hundred dollar bills, gold, and space
Space
Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri
Photograph of Philip Lubin walking on the beach
Space
The write stuff: ten of the best astronaut memoirs
Book covers
Space
The NASA engineers struggling to build a better heat shield
An image of Helen Hwang
Space
How music about space became music about drugs
Conceptual illusy
Space
Where does space begin?
An image of the Earth from space
Space
In her light: space fiction
An astronaut helmet reflecting a light-filled earth
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