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In December 1984 the Soviet Union launched Vega 2 on an unusual double mission: fly past Halley's Comet, then plunge into Venus, a world...
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In December 1984 the Soviet Union launched Vega 2 on an unusual double mission: fly past Halley's Comet, then plunge into Venus, a world...
The X-43D was designed to hold a scramjet at Mach 15 for thirty seconds, released from a Peacekeeper rocket at 200,000 feet. A 2004...
The fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flown was twelve feet long, carried no pilot, and was designed from the start to end up in the...
NASA's Perseverance rover has found complex, ring-shaped carbon molecules sealed inside rocks in Mars's Jezero Crater, a basin that billions of years ago held...
Saturn's moon Titan looks uncannily like Earth: clouds, rain, rivers, lakes, seas, coastlines, dunes, and seasons. Then you learn the rain is liquid methane,...
From three miles away, the first thing to reach the press site was light. Then the sound arrived as force, shaking tripods and cracking...
America's first space station was built out of leftover Apollo hardware — a modified Saturn V third stage, 77 tons and 118 feet long,...
Summary and Key Points: In February 1961, the Soviet Union launched Venera 1, the first spacecraft ever sent from Earth toward another planet. Built...
When NASA launched Voyager in 1977, the spacecraft was built to work for about four years. Nearly five decades later it is still operating,...
They rehearsed the helicopter catch eleven times without a miss. Then four switches, installed upside down to a drawing nobody questioned, sent three years...