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Every commercial jet flying today gets struck by lightning roughly once a year — a 200,000-ampere bolt courses through the fuselage and exits via the tail, and most passengers land at their destination never knowing it happened - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:30:00 GMTFlying into space is not mainly about climbing higher: a spacecraft reaches orbit by accelerating sideways to roughly 28,000 kilometres per hour, fast enough to keep falling around Earth - Space DailySpace Daily · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:10:44 GMTNASA has approved one of its strangest missions yet: Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered drone the size of a car that will fly across Saturn's moon Titan, the one place beyond Earth with rain, rivers and seas, hunting for the chemistry that comes before life - Space DailySpace Daily · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:37:35 GMTTitan's air is four times thicker than ours and its gravity a seventh as strong, which means a human being there could in principle fly under their own muscle power — strap on wings, run a few paces, and flap - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMTNASA's Mars helicopter was built to prove that flight was possible in an atmosphere one percent as thick as Earth's, and it was expected to manage five flights over thirty days, but it flew 72 times across almost three years before a hard landing shattered its rotor - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMTThe flying taxi has been "five years away" for most of our lives, and then it arrived as something smaller — pilotless two-seaters are already selling sightseeing tickets in two Chinese cities and a premium airport shuttle is set to open in Dubai this year, the certifi - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMTThe Voyagers fly astonishingly fast, yet space is so vast it makes a mockery of their speed: aimed at the nearest star, one would still take more than 73,000 years to arrive, though in truth neither is even pointed that way - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:30 GMTSpaceX Starship still floating 5 days after flight | Space photo of the day for July 29, 2026 - SpaceSpace · Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT