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Is there only one photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
Here's another photo of Neil Armstrong on the Moon:
Half resolution version of the original as released by NASA due to file size limits here at SE
He's resting inside the LEM after his and Buzz ...
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Did North Korean missiles reach space in early 2022?
They did, but that's not a big deal
North Korea’s Latest Missile Test Appears to Be Its Boldest in Years (New York Times):
The missile launched on [Jan 28th] was fired at a steep angle, reaching an ...
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Will SpaceX's fleet of rockets triple the entire United States demand for methane/natural gas?
Source Confusion from TechCrunch+
The article by the Energy Consulting Group cites an article by Darrell Etherington at TechCrunch which is not an interview with Musk but instead a badly summarized ...
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Is there only one photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
TL;DR: No, there is at least another pohoto, AS11-40-5894, but we figured that out only in 1994, and the other photo is of poorer quality.
From NASA (emphasis mine):
AS11-40-5886 (OF300) ( 1016k or ...
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Have more people been to space than visited every nation?
Have more people have been to space than visited every nation?
It depends on what means by "visiting every nation" and on what means by "going into space".
The United Nations has ...
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Do recent images from the JWST pose a major crisis for Big Bang cosmology?
No.
Mr. Lerner provides no evidence for the new JWST data causing a major crisis in cosmology, nor that "The Big Bang didn't happen"; other cosmologists disagree with his conclusions. The &...
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Do recent images from the JWST pose a major crisis for Big Bang cosmology?
Some of Lerner's previous complaints about the state of the art did and still do have validity, but his claims about the JWST are wildly out of proportion.
Lerner's ideas were presented in a 1991 book,...
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Will SpaceX's fleet of rockets triple the entire United States demand for methane/natural gas?
Will a Starship launch require 1000 tonnes of LNG?
Yes, this is a reasonable estimate. Wikipedia lists 800 tonnes just for the booster, citing an August 2021 interview with Musk. An additional 200 ...
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Did the United States ever call Venus "the Soviet planet"?
The claim
On the surface the claim in the question is very plain. According to CBS News, the chief of Russia's space agency Dmitry Rogozin stated that because of the more successful track record of ...
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Was Chinese space station forced to take evasive action in 2021?
So, as best as I can tell, the answer is yes.
Based on some links from here, I found the same page page in UNOOSA that has the link to the document that you mentioned in your edit.
Towards the bottom, ...
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Does China plan to launch artificial moons?
An earlier (11 October 2018) Chinese-language article, reported from a special event for the integration of civilian and military entrepreneurship held on 10 October 2018.
The article says that in ...
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Is there only one photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
Yes, this description is essentially correct in the sense that there is no other photograph like it. (The complete set of Apollo 11 photographs are here if you want to double check https://www.hq.nasa....
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Have more people been to the deep ocean on submersibles than to space on space craft?
From the question, I guess the deep sea is defined as 200 meters or deeper.
From Wikipedia, a definition:
The deep sea is broadly defined as the ocean depth where light begins to fade, at > an ...
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Have more people been to the deep ocean on submersibles than to space on space craft?
There is little reason to doubt the claim.
There are several possible definitions of space travel. A relatively broad one considers any human who has reached Earth orbit. According to the list of ...
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Does China plan to launch artificial moons?
A Chinese researcher named Wu Chunfeng (武春风) said he planned to launch "artificial moons" (人造月亮). However, as the BBC puts it:
It's not clear from any of the reports whether this project ...
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Did the United States ever call Venus "the Soviet planet"?
It seems that everyone at the time might have called Venus in that way, and some did:
Proof of this are advances in the subsequent study of the “morning star” which received international recognition....
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Has Virgin Galactic flown any tourists yet
No, and they are not even close to doing so.
There was one SpaceShip Two, named VSS Enterprise. It suffered a crash on its fourth powered test flight, before achieving the license to carry passengers.
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