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What's Happening in Aerospace
Industry news, career insights, and aerospace history — written for students.
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Tiny Lab-Grown Organs Could Replace Astronauts as Space Health Guinea Pigs
Tissue chips — miniature lab-grown organs — are changing how NASA studies the dangers of deep space without risking crew.
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Half a Billion Dollars Says Space Stations Are the Next Big Career Bet
Vast just raised $500M to build a commercial space station. Here's why that's a signal for your career.
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The Rocket Gets You There. The Medicine Keeps You Alive.
NASA has identified 30+ health risks for astronauts — and none are fully solved. That's a career opportunity.
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The $5 Billion Phone Call That Changed Satellite Communications Forever
A $5B satellite phone system crashed spectacularly — then a $25M rescue built the backbone of military comms.
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Nvidia Just Made Space a Computing Platform — Here's What That Means for Careers
Nvidia's new Space-1 module puts AI processing in orbit. The space industry just became a software industry too.
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The Race to Put Data Centers in Orbit Is Getting Very Real — and Very Contested
88,000 satellites. A million more from SpaceX. Nvidia building space chips. Is orbital computing the future — or magical thinking?
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Two Billionaires Bet on Asteroid Mining. They Lost. The Industry They Started Is Just Getting Going.
Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries burned through hundreds of millions — but they proved the economics aren't crazy.
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