In 2012 NASA stealthily slipped a morgue into orbit. No press release. No fanfare. Just a sealed, soft-sided pouch tucked in a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) alongside ...

For most of us, pondering the logistics of death doesn’t involve zero gravity, freezing temperatures, or decomposing in a vacuum. But for NASA, where space travel transforms every “what if” into a ...

Space exploration is one of the most dangerous things humans do. On January 28, 1986, the Challenger space shuttle infamously exploded 73 seconds into launch, killing all seven crew members on board.

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space environment is entirely hostile to human existence. Precision-engineered craft ...

There’s no question that sending human beings to space is an extraordinarily difficult and perilous proposition. It brings to mind a gloomy but necessary question to ask: If someone dies in space – ...

Many people have looked Death in the eye sockets and survived to tell others about it, but few situations speak as much to the imagination as situations where there’s absolutely zero prospect of ...

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