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Humanity has landed in the outer solar system exactly once: on Saturn's moon Titan, in January 2005, when a European probe named Huygens parachuted...
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Humanity has landed in the outer solar system exactly once: on Saturn's moon Titan, in January 2005, when a European probe named Huygens parachuted...
When Hubble reached orbit in 1990, it carried what was called the most perfectly polished mirror humans had ever made — and it was...
The first living creature ever to orbit the Earth was a frightened Moscow stray named Laika, sent into space in 1957 inside a craft...
America won the Moon race in 1969, then mothballed the rockets that got it there, leaving only disassembled Saturn Vs in museums. Now it...
She was told women could not be scientists. She became NASA's first Chief of Astronomy and the "Mother of Hubble." On August 30, NASA...
Once every 176 years, the four giant planets line up so a single spacecraft can slingshot from one to the next in a single...
Galileo was deliberately crashed into Jupiter. Cassini into Saturn. Both destroyed at the height of their success to protect the ocean moons they had...
It weighed barely 570 pounds and ran on plutonium. Its electronics were 1970s vintage. And in September 1979, after six years and billions of...
In October 1967 the Soviet Union announced that Venera 4 had landed on Venus. It hadn't — the probe was crushed 17 miles up,...
The Soviet Union built armored titanium tanks to survive Venus. The United States never built a lander at all. Every American Venus probe was...