How to Get an Extra Day Every Week

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With the Artemis program, NASA is entering into a new era of space exploration. But why should we be sending humans into deep space at all? Why not just keep sending rovers? Jonathan Jiang says that it'll eventually be necessary to move way further out than just Mars. If you stay one place, you're not going to survive long.

NASA’s Artemis mission is the first step toward a long-term human settlement on the moon. Vox’s Unexplainable examines whether humans are even capable of living far from Earth for an extended period of time.

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