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After four years mapping Venus, NASA flew Magellan into the planet it had charted. Controllers lost radio contact on 12 October 1994 on orbit...
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After four years mapping Venus, NASA flew Magellan into the planet it had charted. Controllers lost radio contact on 12 October 1994 on orbit...
NASA is about to try something it has never attempted: instead of another six-wheeled rover, it will fly a car-sized, plutonium-powered drone across the...
America's first space station was built out of leftover Apollo hardware — a modified Saturn V third stage, 77 tons and 118 feet long,...
Summary and Key Points: In February 1961, the Soviet Union launched Venera 1, the first spacecraft ever sent from Earth toward another planet. Built...
When NASA launched Voyager in 1977, the spacecraft was built to work for about four years. Nearly five decades later it is still operating,...
They rehearsed the helicopter catch eleven times without a miss. Then four switches, installed upside down to a drawing nobody questioned, sent three years...
In July 1994, astronomers watched something no human had ever seen: a comet colliding with a planet. Shoemaker-Levy 9 had already been torn apart...
OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The target was...
Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous flight ever...
Earth’s strongest hurricanes last days and peak near 200 mph. Jupiter’s giant anticyclone doubles that speed, spans more than our planet and draws its...
On May 15, 2026, NASA's Psyche spacecraft skimmed past Mars and came away a thousand miles per hour faster without burning a drop of...