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John Doty
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Why do scientists use specialized units for distance when metric units are perfectly adequate?
Apr 7, 2024
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Why do exploration spacecraft like Voyager 1 and 2 go through the asteroid belt, and not over or below it?
Dec 7, 2020
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Why didn't the Galileo probe take pictures as it descended into Jupiter's clouds, really?
Nov 17, 2024
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Has a space mission ever failed due to an incorrect understanding of physics?
Feb 26, 2025
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Why do Canopus Star Trackers track Canopus? Why not so Sirius?
Jun 4, 2021
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Can the gyroscopic effect be used for landing?
Mar 10, 2025
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Does the Moon really need its own atomic clocks and timescales, separate from those used on and around Earth?
Mar 12, 2025
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Could rocket exhaust eventually lead to detrimental effects from interplanetary space pollution?
Dec 2, 2024
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Where in the world does GPS time proceed at one second per second? Is there a map?
Dec 28, 2024
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Orbital Supercomputer for Martian and Outer Planet Computing
Nov 27, 2022

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Are human eyes interferometers?
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Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
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Why did NASA need to observationally confirm whether DART successfully redirected Dimorphos?
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Where is there visible light inside the Sun?
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Is there a reason why Apple servers did not catch on?