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In November 2026, a spacecraft launched during the Carter administration will cross a threshold no human-made object ever has: one light-day from Earth —...
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In November 2026, a spacecraft launched during the Carter administration will cross a threshold no human-made object ever has: one light-day from Earth —...
In June 1985 the Soviet Union did something that still sounds impossible: it flew two balloons through the clouds of another planet. Released into...
For all its power at launch, the Space Shuttle came home as something far humbler: an unpowered glider. Once its main engines shut down...
For three decades, the Sturgeon-class submarines were the U.S. Navy's quiet Cold War hunters, trailing Soviet missile boats and tapping their undersea cables in...
In 1988 the Soviet Union launched two ambitious spacecraft toward Phobos, a tiny moon of Mars, carrying what would have been the first robot...
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...
Mars 6 is one of the strangest missions of the Cold War space race. On March 12, 1974, the Soviet lander entered the Martian...
The story of Luna 15 is one of the great "what ifs" of the Space Race, and one most Americans have never heard. While...
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...