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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...
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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...
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...
Once every 176 years, the four giant planets line up so a single spacecraft can slingshot from one to the next in a single...
Galileo was deliberately crashed into Jupiter. Cassini into Saturn. Both destroyed at the height of their success to protect the ocean moons they had...
It weighed barely 570 pounds and ran on plutonium. Its electronics were 1970s vintage. And in September 1979, after six years and billions of...