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Volume 27, Issue #02 DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL James M. “Mercury 6” O’ConnorEDITOR Joseph “Apollo 8” TaylorART DIRECTOR Nicole “Discovery” WelchDESIGNER Harrison “Mariner 4” HugronASSISTANT EDITOR Emily “Voyager 1” CambiasASSISTANT EDITOR Hayley “Curiosi

Hi Muse!ÄThis is the second email that I’ve sent to Muse. This is kind of urgent. The Space Patrol dragons detected an unknown substance coming from the Milky Way. It’s floating to my world, and it seems to be gathering heat from the stars (including

Launched: December 1996 Landed: July 1997Size: About as big as a microwave ovenLanding technique: Cocooned in airbags that allowed it to bounce many times and roll to a stop Mission: To test the Mars terrain for roaming by future rovers Results: Pave

Dear Space Traveler, How many times have you been taught that: the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and you should always look where you’re going? Once you leave Earth, just about everything you think you know about traveling

Astronomer Wanda Díaz-Merced explores the universe through sound. She uses sonification methods that she helped develop. Measurements of light and electromagnetic energies are converted into sounds of varying pitch, volume, timbre, and frequency, amo

US Army veteran Centra ‘Ce-Ce’ Mazyck remembers when doctors told her she would never walk again. She’d been paralyzed from the waist down after a serious accident while parachuting in 2003. The doctors never said anything about floating, though. In