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Space Haven has officially launched Version 1.0 after a decade of development, bringing its spaceship colony sim out of Early ...

The microbe was gathered from the agency's clean rooms, where experts build spacecraft in carefully controlled environments.

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If you loved watching Ryland Grace MacGyver his way through impossible problems in space, you need to meet Mark Watney. He's ...