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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...
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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,...
The first machine ever to land on another planet was written off as dead. A torn parachute, a capsule toppled on its side with...
A titanium sphere built to land on Venus. A timer set wrong. Fifty-three years stranded in orbit around the wrong planet. When the toughest...
The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long enough on the surface of Venus...
Summary and Key Points on the X-20: Years before the Space Shuttle, the US Air Force had designed a reusable, piloted spaceplane that launched...
Summary and Key Points: On November 16, 2004, a twelve-foot unmanned NASA aircraft lit a scramjet with no moving parts and rode it to...
Two classified Russian military satellites maintained a 10-foot gap in low Earth orbit on April 28, while traveling at 17,000 miles per hour. The...
From 1991 through 1999, NASA flew the SR-71 Blackbird after the aircraft was retired from the U.S. Air Force. The aircraft was flown for...
It’s well known that NASA operated SR-71 Blackbird jets throughout the 1990s, which were loaned to NASA by the Air Force after the Blackbird...