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In 1988 the Soviet Union launched two ambitious spacecraft toward Phobos, a tiny moon of Mars, carrying what would have been the first robot...
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In 1988 the Soviet Union launched two ambitious spacecraft toward Phobos, a tiny moon of Mars, carrying what would have been the first robot...
On Christmas Day 2003, Britain's Beagle 2 reached Mars and went silent. For more than a decade it was written off as destroyed. Then...
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...
Coming home from orbit, the Space Shuttle slammed into the upper atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound, compressing the air ahead of...
The story of Luna 15 is one of the great "what ifs" of the Space Race, and one most Americans have never heard. While...
NASA's twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were each built to last 90 days. Kept alive by Martian winds that cleaned their solar panels,...
Voyager 2 is one of the greatest engineering achievements in history. Launched in 1977, it visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune before sailing on...
When the Soviet Union sent two probes plunging into the atmosphere of Venus in December 1978, they carried an instrument named "Groza," the Russian...
The Space Shuttle is remembered as an engineering marvel, but this analysis argues it was also one of NASA's costliest strategic mistakes. Sold as...
Exploring Venus is extremely challenging. A landing probe or lander must withstand crushing pressure, with atmospheric pressure roughly 90 times Earth’s, equivalent to being...