The ache you feel surrounded by people isn't evidence that you're bad at socializing — it's your nervous system accurately reporting that your physical environment and your emotional environment have come apart.

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NASA has approved the Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project and contracted SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch the European Space Agency’s Mars rover in late 2028, even as the White House’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal would zero out funding for the same project. The $175.7 million launch contract, announced April 16, commits the […]

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In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Col.

NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel.

Russia has warned European governments of potential escalation across the continent after Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign reportedly inflicted severe damage on Russian oil and gas infrastructure, with claims of destroyed export terminals, refineries and drilling platforms cutting into export revenues. The threat, issued by the Russian Defence Ministry, follows reports of a wave of European […]

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China’s Shenzhou-21 astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, installing debris-protection hardware and inspecting the orbital outpost.

The astronauts who flew around the moon on Artemis 2 said they were confident the Orion spacecraft is ready to support future missions.

Over-preparation isn't anxiety — it's a private policy response to a specific remembered humiliation. Understanding the mechanism changes what actually fixes it.

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Week in images: 13-17 April 2026

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Compliment-struggle isn't modesty or grace. It's a real-time audit where accomplished people try to reconcile external praise with an internal self-image that refuses to update without documentation.

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