As NASA and other organizations begin to lay the groundwork for crewed missions to places other than an orbiting space station or even the Moon, they’re beginning to better understand the potential challenges such missions will pose.
Keeping a crew alive and well for a long-haul space mission is going to be hard, but one of the less-talked-about technological hurdles standing between mankind and deep space exploration actually has to do with navigation. Later this month, NASA will launch a mission to test a tool that could come in handy when we’re finally ready to see humans travel to other worlds.
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NASA is going to fire an atomic clock into space so astronauts know where they’re going originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 22:05:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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