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The fastest spacecraft ever launched. A nine-year journey across three billion miles. A world that, for 85 years, had been almost nothing but a...
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The fastest spacecraft ever launched. A nine-year journey across three billion miles. A world that, for 85 years, had been almost nothing but a...
It traveled 416 million miles to reach Mars. Then it flew too low into the atmosphere and was torn apart in minutes. The Mars...
Twenty years in space. Thirteen years orbiting Saturn. More than 450,000 images. And then, on September 15, 2017, NASA deliberately flew the Cassini spacecraft...
Everyone remembers the F-86 and the MiG-15. Almost nobody remembers the Saab 29 Tunnan — the "Flying Barrel," a stocky Swedish fighter that, despite...
A jammed antenna. A radiation dose far beyond what it was built to survive. A decade of improvised repairs from hundreds of millions of...
A four-year mission that has lasted 49 years. A spacecraft 15 billion miles away, running on 1970s computers and a dying plutonium battery. In...
They beat the heat, the pressure, and the sulfuric acid. What kept beating them was the lid over the lens. On October 22, 1975,...
The first machine ever to land on another planet was written off as dead. A torn parachute, a capsule toppled on its side with...
A titanium sphere built to land on Venus. A timer set wrong. Fifty-three years stranded in orbit around the wrong planet. When the toughest...
The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long enough on the surface of Venus...