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The astronauts in the Nebra Sky disk spaceflight, which is also known as the Cosmic Kiss mission, with German astronaut Matthias Maurer on the far left.		Source: Dbachmann / CC BY-SA 3.0 / ESA

Why a Replica of the 3,600-Year-Old Nebra Sky Disk Was Sent into Space

When the flight crew for the latest SpaceX mission took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, November 11, German-born astronaut Matthias Maurer was carrying a replica of one of Germany’s...