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From three miles away, the first thing to reach the press site was light. Then the sound arrived as force, shaking tripods and cracking...
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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,...
Nothing was holding one of America's most advanced weather satellites to its fixture but gravity and friction — because another crew had borrowed the...
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...
Venus melts lead, crushes machines under ninety atmospheres, and rains sulfuric acid, which is why Soviet engineers built the Venera landers like submarines and...
In July 1994, astronomers watched something no human had ever seen: a comet colliding with a planet. Shoemaker-Levy 9 had already been torn apart...
OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The target was...
Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous flight ever...