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In June 1985 the Soviet Union released 2 balloons into the clouds of Venus. Each was 3.4 meters across, hung a 7-kilogram gondola from...
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In June 1985 the Soviet Union released 2 balloons into the clouds of Venus. Each was 3.4 meters across, hung a 7-kilogram gondola from...
For all its power at launch, the Space Shuttle came home as something far humbler: an unpowered glider. Once its main engines shut down...
19FortyFive recently went to the Apollo/Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center for a firsthand look at the most powerful machine humanity has ever...
In 1988 the Soviet Union launched two ambitious spacecraft toward Phobos, a tiny moon of Mars, carrying what would have been the first robot...
As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in July 1969, a second spacecraft was circling overhead, and almost no one knew....
It’s one of the greatest engineering feats ever achieved during the Space Race. It also remains one of the surprisingly underappreciated feats. Perhaps that’s...
On Christmas Day 2003, Britain's Beagle 2 reached Mars and went silent. For more than a decade it was written off as destroyed. Then...
Mars 6 is one of the strangest missions of the Cold War space race. On March 12, 1974, the Soviet lander entered the Martian...
NASA's Genesis spacecraft did something no mission had done since Apollo. It flew out beyond the Moon, spent more than two years catching atoms...
Coming home from orbit, the Space Shuttle slammed into the upper atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound, compressing the air ahead of...
The story of Luna 15 is one of the great "what ifs" of the Space Race, and one most Americans have never heard. While...