Voyage

Say Bon Voyage to Free Checked Bags. Southwest Airlines Ends Popular Perk

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It’s the end of a (free) era: Southwest Airlines will begin charging for checked bags at the end of May. Amid sinking profits, the budget airline announced in a press release Tuesday that it’s ending its long-standing policy of allowing passengers to check two bags for free, restricting the perk to its elite members starting … Read more

Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?

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On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, atmospheric friction warmed up its heat shield so much that molten debris flew off. Rapid deceleration imposed more than six times the force … Read more