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As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in July 1969, a second spacecraft was circling overhead, and almost no one knew....
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As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in July 1969, a second spacecraft was circling overhead, and almost no one knew....
It’s one of the greatest engineering feats ever achieved during the Space Race. It also remains one of the surprisingly underappreciated feats. Perhaps that’s...
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...
Mars 6 is one of the strangest missions of the Cold War space race. On March 12, 1974, the Soviet lander entered the Martian...
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...
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,...
In October 2016 Europe's Schiaparelli probe had nearly landed on Mars — surviving entry, parachute, and radar — when a sensor was overwhelmed for...
On November 27, 1971, the Soviet Mars 2 became the first human-made object ever to reach the surface of Mars. It got there the...
Voyager 2 is one of the greatest engineering achievements in history. Launched in 1977, it visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune before sailing on...