Spring 2024
- 14th Annual AAK Day in Kansas
- Ad Astra STEM Day recognizedt
- Three Kansas universities to focus on improved in-space manufacturing
- 2024 Kansas State University State High School Science Teachers of the Year named
- O'Hara returns
- Free STEM Camp for teachers
- Help NASA in its research!
- Rural Education Center (REC) Grant offers STEM training to rural teachers and schools
- Student powers to explore
- WSU rises to No. 2 for industry-funded engineering R&Ds
- KU professor receives NSF award to study black holes
- NASA's 2022 DART mission crashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos?
- AAKF's chronicle of interstellar research spans 2002-2024
Winter 2023-24
- How about a yearly Ad Astra STEM Day?
- Stop in and say "hi"
- Online seminar makes space science accessible to all
- What to do about human influence on the Moon?
- Coming in January-- Coffee at the Cosmo
- More space manufacturing coming to Kansas
- Google Earth creator is KU's newest National Academy of Inventors fellow
- Update on Nova-C Moon lander mission
- NASA invites public to send names aboard Artemis robotic Moon rover
Fall 2023
- Here are some Fast Exo-planet Facts...
- Fast Eclipse Fact
- Fast Interstellar U. Facts
- Fast Asteroid Facts
- OSIRIS-Rex Kansas connection
- Interstellar Seminar to expand
- Kansas State Library partners with Solar Eclipse Activities in Libraries
- KSU senior named Goldwater Scholar
- In Memoriam
- Nova-C Moon lander mission has links to AAKF board member
- Letter from the Editor:
- Interstellar R&D
Summer 2023
- What year was the first exoplanet discovery confirmed?
- Students find interstellar seminar thought-provoking.
- AAK Space Celebration gets four stars.
- Kansas has a NASA Moon Tree.
- KU junior awarded an Astronaut Scholarship.
- WSU AeroFeathers target quiet flight.
- NASA grant enables WSU Team to study microbes,
- FHSU College of Education awarded NASA grants.
- Sunlite tackles radiation.
- Upcoming Events
Spring 2023
- AAK Day + cool science = Fun
- KU physics major awarded Goldwater Scholarship
- Kansas high school selected for NASA TechRise Student Challenge
- K-State chemist receives prestigious NSF Career Award
- Robotics teams quality for VEX World Tourney
- K-State award recognizes outstanding high school science teachers
- Flint Hills Discovery Center awarded NASA STEM education grant
- Upcoming Events
- Interstellar R&D
Winter 2022-23
- Almost underway...
- Kansas suppliers helped make Artemis 1 successful
- New Star, Planet name proposed by Chickasaw Nation and Cosmosphere
- Wichita State students present work on NASA neutrinos project at Paris conference
- What about micro-organisms, extreme conditions and space?
- Upcoming Events:
Fall 2022
- They were only expected to last five years...
- More views of the Galaxy Forum..
- AAKF adds to board
- And thank-you to...
- NASA Eclipse Ambassasors wanted for 2023 & 2024
- High Altitude Ballooning at Fort Hays State University...
- KU physicist receives a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship
- KU aerospace engineering students excel in national design competition
- NASA engineer returns to WSU as Innovator in Residence
- K-State doctoral student awarded prestigious Ford Foundation fellowship
- Quick Notes
- Pioneering course on interstellar science, communities and civilization to be offered
- Interstellar R&D #42
Summer 2022
- Voyager --Happy 45th to Humanity's Most Distant Explorers
- DART--A Targeted Mission
- Summer around the Moon--three new orbiters
- Mars Update
- Interstellar 101
Spring 2022
- Steve Durst to present introduction to the interstellar community
- Winning NASA patch has S.N.A.P.P.Y. design
- The Ad Astra Kansas Space Celebration--We're back!
- Summer Outreach-
- Another Wichita tie to the Atlas V rocket
- Kansas Space Grant outreach / 2022 Western Kansas Robotics Competition winners
- Interstellar R&D
Winter 2021-22
- Spring 2022 watch for AAKFactivities
- New space mission contracts for five Wichita firms
- One Bright Kansas Star: Sarah Elizabeth McCandless
- NASA Challenge "SUITS" the WSU "Harvestars"
- Coffee at the Cosmo returns Jan. 20
- Project LEAPES: More 7-12 STEM education from K-State Rural Education Center
- KU aerospace students fly high in international competition
Fall 2021
- Supernova effects come from surprising places
- Kansas Students Grades 6-12 Cubesat Mission Patch Contest
- Galaxy Forum 2021--link to watch it
- NASA eyes, Kansas Minds II: JWST
- KU takes lead on nuclear research
- Exploration Place brings astronaut adventure
- Coffee @ Cosmo happening
- Welcome to a new board member
- Interstellar R&D
Summer 2021
- The 2021 Galaxy Forum, August 21, will feature the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope.
- Experts take on the Sun, Mars and our Interstellar University initiative.
- Getting closer and closer to the Sun…within seven solar radii.
- NASA science reporting is a dream for Kansan.
- Benedictine's Daglen Observatory broadens student choices and public outreach.
Spring 2021
- Space physics is a magnetic force to KU alum--Mona Kessel leads heliophysics research at NASA HQ
- Kansas universities work on NASA artificial intelligence project--KSU, KU and WSU collaborating
- Ad Astra Kansas Day governor's proclamation-- We continue to promote science in Kansas
- Congrats to two WSU achievers-- NSF and BEYA awards
- Benedictine scientist is part of new discovery in interstellar space--Molecules are a big deal in space
- Interstellar R & D--What's happening?
Winter 2020-21
- KU alum helps "Shepard" in a new era of space travel
- Marking twenty years of the Ad Astra Kansas Foundation
- NASA grant to Kansas universities focuses on 3D printing
- View last October's Galaxy Forum on our Facebook page
- Grant enables National Institute of Materials Advancement at Pittsburg State
Fall 2020
- "ARTEMIS and BEYOND" is the 2020 Galaxy Forum theme. Learn about the Moon landing scheduled for 2024, the next rock on our bucket list--Mars, and more. Current Artemis engineer and native Kansan Michael Staab will be among the experts speaking in this annual free event.
- $2.3 million grant allows WSU to keep leading NASA in Kansas efforts. Grant will allow NASA in Kansas to continue and expand STEM education, research and policy in Kansas.
- KU astronomer helps discover first planet orbiting a white dwarf star WD 1856 b is the size of Jupiter
Imaging Triton--the optics are good for Winfield native. Penny Warren has always loved knowing the underlying drivers of things...
- More help for STEM education! Ten more Kansas school districts to benefit.
Interstellar R&D -- Always something new
Summer 2020
- Spacesuit design--engineering put to a stellar use.
Mallory Jennings uses mechanical engineering to work on both future and current spacesuits.
- Annual Galaxy Forum postponed because of COVID
- Spinning galaxies have unexpected possibilities. K-State study of geometrical patterns of over 200,000 spiral galaxies bring surprises
- Fort Hays State University robotics wins national ITEECA 2020 competition. Their two teams consisted of both traditional and early college students
- KU juniors earn 2020 Astronaut Foundation Scholarships. Angelica Lang and Jonah Stiel both started their research in high school
- Kansas planetariums display the universe. Seven resources around the state for learning about the sky
- Virtual Q +A about Artemis available for students. Hear from Nick Hague and others involved in the space arena
Spring 2020
- WSU offers Space Science Graduate Certificate program-- the first of its kind in Kansas
- Robots to expand distance learning--grant expected to serve 2,360 rural students in Kansas
- Kansas Observatories--resources to learn about astronomy
- Downlink to last November's Interstellar Symposium presentation videos--fourteen available for viewing
- Interstellar R&D--observation, communication, transportation
Winter 2019-20
- KU graduate joins active astronaut corps
- New NASA e-book reveals insights of Earth seen at night from space
- AAKF upcoming events
- WSU project studies human brain responses in space
- TVIW/NASA Interstellar Symposium and Propulsion Workshop proves
stimulating / thought-provoking
Fall 2019
- Upcoming Symposium's Next Giant Leap: Ad Astra
- Wichita aerospace company selected as NASA partner
- Galaxy Forum topics inform
- NASA Eyes--Kansas Minds
- Celebrating the Scientific Legacy of NASA and Apollo
- Move over Mighty Mouse: KSU researchers send mice to space for immune studies
- Symposium science fiction panel
Summer 2019
- August Galaxy Forum to feature black holes and more…
- Ad Astra Kansas Foundation announces endowment
- Abstract submission and registration open for Wichita-based Interstellar Symposium and NASA Workshop
- AAKF adds to foundation board
- Fun was had by all at the Ad Astra Space Celebration
- KSGC grants help Kansans mark NASA milestones…
- …and another Kansas connection
- Randall Chambers award winners 2019
- Another event
- AAKF fosters STEM at ExpO
- Upcoming Ad Astra Kansas Space Celebration
- KSU involved in ISS research
- Kansas amateur astronomers to track near-earth– objects
- Downlink to Nick Hague available May 10
- Interstellar symposium registration to open
- Interstellar R & D
- AAKF winter outreach
- Kansas Central LEGO League winners
- Interstellar Symposium call for abstracts
- Peterson Planetarium special events
- Letter by Kansas U.S. Senator Jerry Moran
- WSI Space Exploration Lecture #2
- Hague to go into wild blue yonder again
Fall 2018
- Galaxy Forum goes to both ends of the solar system
- Ad Astra Kansas Space Day soars
- Call for abstracts to sixth interstellar symposium
- Kansas astronaut has “one wild ride”
- Interstellar R&D
Summer 2018
- Galaxy Forum travels with Juno to Jupiter
- Kansas astronaut will launch to International Space Station
- Team K.I.S.S gets AAKF’s 2018 Ad Astra Kansas Award
- Interested in rocketry? Check these out...
- KU mini-satellite launch is on the horizon
- Teachers can see free educational documentaries ...
- In Memoriam...
Spring 2018
- Proclamation by the Governor
- In case you were wondering... a list of Nobel Prize winners in science with Kansas connections
- KU Martian spacecraft design wins AIAA award
- AAKF fosters STEM at Engineering Expo
- NIAC award targets solar interior
- Send your name to the Sun
- WSU is tops in aerospace engineering
- Astronaut Scott Kelly in Hutchinson
- Interstellar R & D
Winter 2017-18
- Astronaut Scott Kelly coming to Hutchinson
- The great escape: With mock space capsule, KSU researchers partner with NASA
- AAKF to participate in Kansas Day history event
- Exploration Place exhibit "Designs, Builds (and now) Flies"
Fall 2017
- Hope to discover sure signs of life on Mars? -- This KU professor's team has proposed a technique using the element vanadium.
- Kansas teachers: Applications are open for 2018 Honeywell Educators Space Academy Includes a link to the application website.
- In memoriam: Cassini-Huygens -- Cassini traveled 7 years and 2.7 billion miles to get to Saturn and gave us 13 years of up-close-and-personal with Saturn and its moons.
- Link to "Lord of the Rings: the Cassini Mission to Saturn" from Galaxy Forum -- This audience-friendly presentation by Todd Barber, NASA lead propulsion engineer on the mission, lays the science out in a very understandable manner. Great for students
- Ad Astra Space Celebration was wet and wild -- Includes photos of and thank-yous to.
- Interstellar R & D -- Topics include planet-finding techniques, biosignature detection, solar sails and ion thrusters.
Summer 2017
- Upcoming Galaxy Forum offers triple the fun--
Corona, Corona--the eclipse
Lord of the Rings--Cassini's "Grand Finale"
Curious Cam--Curiosity's ChemCam findings
- The 2017 Solar Eclipse by Dr. Christopher M. Sorensen
- KU alum is selected for NASA 2017 astronaut class
- Ad Astra Kansas award winners at WSU Engineering Open House
- Ad Astra Kansas Space Celebration / Topeka Science & Tech Festival
Spring 2017
- Curious Cam--Curiosity's ChemCam findings
- The Ad Astra Kansas Foundation is co-recipient of science festival grant
- TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Discoveries in the "Goldilocks" Zone presentation flyer
- FROM the Editor
- TRAPPIST-1 system is ultra cool and ultra complicated
- KSU public lecture geared towards total eclipse / astrophotography
- Astrobiology research at GSFC engages WSU physics major
- Interstellar R & D
Winter 2016
- NASA Design Build Fly exhibit to take off
- University of Kansas graduate spends internship at NASA Ames
- AAK Space Celebration was fun
- Science museum ticket winners from AAK Space Celebration
- Space exploration brings evolving questions
Fall 2016
- Annual Ad Astra Kansas Day Space Celebration
- Don't forget AmazonSmiles
- Astronaut Scholarship awarded to two KU seniors
- Interstellar R&D
Summer 2016
- AKansas scientist to feature KEPLER at Galaxy Forum
- Space travel opens new field of inquiry in genetics says KU prof
- Support AAKF through the AmazonSmile program
- K-State researchers invent, patent new type of laser
- Smithsonian universe exhibit comes to southwest Kansas
- Kansas students attend Honeywell space camp
- Space education programs available for middle school teachers and students
- Interstellar R & D
Spring 2016
- Ad Astra Kansas Day calendar changes in 2016
- PSU–GAO Observatory marks 20th anniversary
- New Astra Kansas Foundation board member
- Kansas
Observatory Resources
- KU student to study deep riddles at Fermilab
- WSU is top in aerospace R&D funding
- PSU teams com-pete in NASA rover challenge
- Interstellar R & D
Fall 2015
- Space enthusiasts flock to 2015 Galaxy Forum
- Studying Earth rocks helps in search for life on Mars
- NASA-inspired flagship program comes to Wichita magnet
- Planetariums educate about the night sky
- Randall Chambers Ad Astra Award winners
- KU students receive Astronaut Scholarship Awards
- Over 300 attend Ad Astra Kansas Day event
- Researchers study Kansas weather
- Interstellar R & D
Spring 2015
- New Horizons ready for close encounter of the Pluto kind
- Tombaugh remembered with New Horizons
- 2015 Ad Astra Kansas Day will “Target Pluto
- Students Cheer for Pluto as Kansas State Symbol
- AAK Foundation welcomes new board member
- KU physicists active in Large Hadron Collider restart
- Wichitan “fixes stuff” on the ISS
- KSGC funds enable education / research
- Interstellar R & D
- AAK Day flyer and information
- Scientist to speak about interstellar travel
Fall 2014
- KSU space biology research
studies the immune system
- Haskell Indian Nations
University awarded
NASA grant
- High Altitude Balloon launches give students “aha” moments
- Galaxy Forum journeys to the Moon, Mars and the stars
- K-State researchers design wireless bio-sensor technology for space suits
- Randall Chambers
Ad Astra Kansas
Award
- Don’t forget the
Dream Rocket
Project
- Researchers to
gauge supernova
disaster
- NASA #SkyScience
activity
- NASA opens Mars
science challenge
to public
- Interstellar R & D
- NASA astronaut Steve Hawley presents at Ad Astra Kansas Day
- Valley Center H.S students send experiment to International Space Station
- Ad Astra Kansas Foundation adds new
board member
- Native American astronomy at AAK Day
- State Science Olympiad teams excel
- KU students team to work on technology
- Cosmosphere mockup to be on Discovery Channel
- Interstellar R & D
- Dream Rocket Project melds art, science and visions for the future
- Fifth Galaxy Forum Kansas gives educators cutting edge information
- KU grad student to study polar ice
- Galaxy Forum websites
- Summer intern writes computer code at JPL
- Kansas BEST Robotics 2013
- Interstellar R & D
- Ad Astra Kansas Day travels from Earth to the Van Allen Belt to Curiosity to Voyager
- Kansan discovers asteroids to rival Russian one
- Meet Our Board
- KU researchers seen on Weather Channel series “Forecasting the End”
- Cosmic ray observatory provides hands-on experience for WSU senior
- Interstellar R&D
- KU scientist receives grant to study complexity of the universe
- Astronaut health technology research may have uses both in space and here on Earth
- Meet our Board
- Galaxy Forum shines
- Ad Astra Kansas Day 2012 photos
- Higgs boson discovery exciting
- Mars rover name came from Kansas student
- Randall Chambers AAK Engineering Award
- Interstellar R&D
- Ad Astra Kansas Initiative Foundation Board named
- Voyagers’ Kansas ties continue after 35 years
- Cosmosphere celebrating 50th anniversary
- Meet our Board members
- Ad Astra Kansas Day 2012
- Teacher workshop opportunity
- SCIENCE in KANSAS--150 Years and Counting roster
- Interstellar R & D
- Ad Astra Kansas meeting to found new organization
- NASA composites grant awarded
- Looking for salty Martians
- First stage of Auger North Cosmic Ray Observatory (photo)
- Topeka Highland launches robotics
- Kansas NASA space science student ambassador speaks from experience
- One year into NASA / KSU space fitness research
- Land of Oz Observatory update
- Kansas R & D
- Interstellar R & D
- Governor's proclamation of Ad Astra Kansas Day to celebrate science in Kansas
- Sesquicentennial prompts recognition of science legacy
- Ad Astra Kansas Day Space Celebration
- Presentation on possible Kansas observatory to be given in Topeka
- Sticking power: New patented adhesive could find place in space
- What's your Kansas Science-Q?
- Kansas Science Olympiad held April 2
- Kansas R &D
- Interstellar R & D
- Observatory is possible in Kansas
- Ad Astra to recognize150 years of science achievement
- KSU studying astronaut
physical requirements
- Randall Chambers Award
- Three Kansans to JSC
- Galaxy Forum goes cosmic
- KU telemetry projects
- WU near space balloon launch
- Kansas Science Olympiad held April 2
- Kansas R &D
- Interstellar R & D
Spring 2010
- NanoScale Corporation working on space projects and more
- Washburn doing NASA study on gamma ray effects
- Ad Astra Kansas Day 2010 Governor's proclamation
- Upcoming Ad Astra Kansas Day Space Celebration in Topeka
--in honor of Hubble 20th anniversary
- Kansas Academy of Math and Science aims at exceptional students
- KU's Monarch Space Watch includes Kansas students
- Cosmosphere celebrates Apollo 13 -- 40th anniversary
- Kansas R & D listings
- Interstellar R & D
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Fall
- 2009
- Galaxy Forum informs
- Space physics on the
radar at Fort Hays State
- NASA awards $1.9 million to
KU Center for polar studies
- NSF awards $20 million for Kansas
energy and climate research
- Wichita is site of SAMPE conference
- KCSC receives prestigious grant
- R & D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R & D
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Spring
- 2009
- 2009 governor's proclamation of Ad Astra Kansas Day
- UAS technology advancing in Kansas
- International physics convention to be at KSU
- Stellar activity thrives in Kansas
- Wichita aerospace magnets attract students
- NSF STEM grant enables Pittsburg State engineering
scholarships
- Outcomes from Kansas Space Initiative meeting (link)
- R & D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R & D
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Fall
- 2008
- November meeting to explore Kansas space tech
potential
- NASA 50th...Lyons man’s helicopter retrieved
Alan Shepard
- Robots wow at ICRA
- 2008 Kansas SMARTT Conference features Homer Hickam
- Kansas Cosmosphere eyes podcasting
- $2.9 million awarded for science education program
- Student finalist in Discovery Channel 3-M Scientist
Challenge
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Spring - 2008
- Think tiny Mars rovers
- Hawley is homebound
- National LDRS launch to be held in Argonia this summer
- Chambers was a national treasure
- Ad Astra Kansas Day observance planned
- Wichita State ranks third in aerospace R & D
- KU teams selected for NASA Microgravity University
- Downlink connects fifth graders to astronauts
- WSU students working at NASA Dryden
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Fall
- 2007
- KU scientists theory sheds light on the cosmic
effects on extinctions on Earth
- Kansas has space for space industry
- Pittsburg State: a moonbuggy master
- Kansas space scientist addresses NASA
- Robotics competitions foster scientific thinking
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Spring - 2007
- Governor's Proclamation
- Team lights the way in NASA competition
- Cosmosphere gains new president and more space
- NASA training comes home with teachers
- Kansas Day activities at the Capitol look to the
stars
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Fall
- 2006
- Mathematicians quantum gravity research may have
interstellar applications
- Pluto, we hardly knew ye
- Liberty Bell 7 returns to Kansas for good
- KSGC has new director, associate director
- KCAE member to be honored
- Kiowa County -- meteorite capital?
- Topeka display marks Ad Astra Day
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Spring - 2006
- Astronomy and space physics research active in Kansas
- Ad Astra display to be in capitol rotunda
- Kansas observatories
- "Getting off the Planet" chronicles behind-the-scenes
research that went into the U.S. space program
- Wellington Challenger Center continues education
mission of astronauts
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Fall
- 2005
- WSU friction-stir welding project has space
applications
- Topeka company is Kansas' newest NASA connection
- Ad Astra Kansas Day event looks to the stars
- NASA in Kansas is present at Kansas State Fair
- Cosmosphere premieres "Magnificent Desolation:
Walking on the Moon"
- Wichita middle school is Kansas NASA Explorer School
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Spring - 2005
- Kansas space future is topic of Ad Astra Day
- Governor's Proclamation
- Mars human factors in NASA's new space flight
missions -- Part II
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Fall
- 2004
- First Kansas satellite is ready to soar
- Mars human factors in NASA's new space flight
missions -- Part I
- Kansans attend 2004 NASA academies
- New staff member joins Ad Astra
- Kansas 4-H does aerospace "fairly" well
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Spring
- 2004
- Astronaut Steve Hawley to speak at second annual Ad
Astra Day event
- In astronaut training, most roads lead back to NASA
- Kansas high schools earn FIRST robotic competition
awards
- Summer science opportunities abound at all levels
- Ad Astra Per Aspera
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Fall
- 2003
- Kansas flies high in remote sensing
- Kansas team to fly on NASA KC-135 microgravity
aircraft
- So you want to be an astronaut?
- NASA travel grants available
- KSGC members/affiliates display at EAA AirVenture
- Space flight notables present at Wichita Aviation
Festival
- Scientific role models needed
- Gemini 6 and 10 in Hutchinson
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Spring - 2003
- Governor's Proclamation
- Ad Astra Day proclaimed -- celebration event scheduled
- Human factors engineering: Enhancing work efficiency
and safety in space and on earth
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Fall
- 2002
- Why Kansas?
- NASA headquarters comes to Kansas
- Space serendipities and spinoffs -- opportunity knocks
- BioServe seeks life science knowledge
- R&D projects in Kansas
- Interstellar R&D
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Spring - 2002
- Kansas has high hopes in 21st century
- Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has stellar
mission
- Space serendipities and spinoffs enhance life quality
on earth
- Interstellar R&D
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