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L'Affaire Siloxane
How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station
Maciej Cegłowski
A weekly-or-more deep dive on technical topics surrounding Mars exploration, from microbiology to rocket science and everywhere in between. Click to read Mars For The Rest of Us, by Maciej Cegłowski, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Let's talk space toilets
You should have gone before you left Earth
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Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds
The best ice fishing in the Solar System is worth finding
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Why Not Venus?
The planet next door may be rough, but it has a lot of atmosphere
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More Bounce to the Ounce
A love letter to the rocket that everyone is too chicken to build
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Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space
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A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.