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On this day in 1965, ten men entered SEALAB II off La Jolla — and Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter stayed 30 straight days on...
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On this day in 1965, ten men entered SEALAB II off La Jolla — and Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter stayed 30 straight days on...
The SR-71's propulsion was far more than two engines. At speeds above Mach 3, the movable inlet spike, bypass system and exhaust worked together,...
The vote was 424 hands in a half-empty hall on the assembly's last day, and the definition's third clause — cleared the neighborhood —...
NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a nuclear-powered rotorcraft to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, where methane evaporates, methane clouds form, rain falls, rivers cut channels...
The surface of Venus sits at about 870°F under a sea-level atmospheric pressure roughly 92 times that of Earth. Standing there would be comparable...
Pete Knight's October 1967 flight hit Mach 6.7 and came home scorched, holed, and finished — the X-15A-2 never flew again, and no pilot...
What set X-20 Dyna-Soar apart from its contemporaries, Mercury, Gemini, and the Soviet Vostok, was that it wasn't a capsule.
The probes rewrote Saturn's rings: possibly younger than the dinosaurs, raining an Olympic pool of ice into the planet every half hour, ten meters...
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...