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In the summer of 1979 the United States dropped a 77-ton space station out of the sky and could not say where it would...
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In the summer of 1979 the United States dropped a 77-ton space station out of the sky and could not say where it would...
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...
Once every 176 years, the four giant planets line up so a single spacecraft can slingshot from one to the next in a single...
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...
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,...