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The YA-9, The Aircraft That Could Have Been The A-10: The Northrop YA-9 was the primary competitor to the Fairchild Republic YA-10 in the...
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The YA-9, The Aircraft That Could Have Been The A-10: The Northrop YA-9 was the primary competitor to the Fairchild Republic YA-10 in the...
In November 1988 the Soviet Union flew its own space shuttle. Buran reached orbit, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself completely on autopilot,...
The first spacecraft to land safely on Mars was Soviet, not American, and it did not survive. In December 1971 the Mars 3 lander...
The first living creature ever to orbit the Earth was a frightened Moscow stray named Laika, sent into space in 1957 inside a craft...
It weighed barely 570 pounds and ran on plutonium. Its electronics were 1970s vintage. And in September 1979, after six years and billions of...
In October 1967 the Soviet Union announced that Venera 4 had landed on Venus. It hadn't — the probe was crushed 17 miles up,...
The Soviet Union built armored titanium tanks to survive Venus. The United States never built a lander at all. Every American Venus probe was...
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...