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From Nixon's 1972 promise to the museums: the Space Shuttle's development bill doubled, its fleet built the space station and saved Hubble, and two...
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From Nixon's 1972 promise to the museums: the Space Shuttle's development bill doubled, its fleet built the space station and saved Hubble, and two...
One year into its eighth classified mission, the X-37B keeps breaking its own records: 908 days aloft, stealthy aerobraking, a quantum sensor that navigates...
The F-16XL doubled payload, extended range and lost to the F-15E before NASA used two prototypes for decades of supersonic research.
Earth takes 365 days to orbit the Sun and Mars takes about 687, so the two planets line up for an efficient transfer only...
After four years mapping Venus, NASA flew Magellan into the planet it had charted. Controllers lost radio contact on 12 October 1994 on orbit...
Rather than build a new spacecraft, ESA reused the Mars Express bus and spare scientific instruments left over from Mars Express and Rosetta. Venus...
Most people associate Apollo exclusively with the Moon, which makes sense, given that Apollo only ever went there. But after the lunar landing, NASA...
Surface pressure on Venus runs about ninety times Earth's, equivalent to diving three thousand feet into the ocean, at an average surface temperature of...
This was a dangerous test, as debris from the blast could have been spread to civilians on the ground. That is why the test...
Everything astronomers can see directly — stars, planets, gas, dust, people — accounts for about five percent of the universe. Roughly 27 percent is...