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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...
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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...
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...
NASA's path back to Mars in the 1990s was also its strangest. Instead of firing thrusters to set the spacecraft down gently, engineers wrapped...
Alpha Centauri sits roughly 4.37 light-years from Earth, making it the closest star system to our own. In astronomical terms, it may seem like...
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...
When Hubble reached orbit in 1990, it carried what was called the most perfectly polished mirror humans had ever made — and it was...
In June 1985 the Soviet Union did something that still sounds impossible: it flew two balloons through the clouds of another planet. Released into...
She was told women could not be scientists. She became NASA's first Chief of Astronomy and the "Mother of Hubble." On August 30, NASA...