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An advanced spacecraft streaking towards the most distant planetary encounter to date finally reaches its destination. As the spacecraft nears its closest approach to its target, […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, currently in the middle of its historic encounter with Pluto and its system of moons, is the culmination of a quarter of […]
From the first flight of the Titan IIIC in 1965 to the last flight of the Titan IVB four decades later, the Titan III and IV […]
ULA’s Atlas V is one of the most powerful launch vehicles currently available in the United States and it is certainly among the most reliable rockets […]
When space enthusiasts think of the Gemini 4 mission, they automatically remember the historic first American spacewalk by Edward White. While an important achievement, this feat […]
For the better part of a quarter of a century, Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa has caught the attention of scientists and the lay public alike. Although […]
I still remember the night of December 6, 1972. I was in fifth grade at the time and my parents let me stay up well past […]
After the initial flurry of lunar mission launches in the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union had amassed a significant list of Moon-related […]
On May 5, 1965, Soviet authorities officially announced that contact with the malfunctioning Zond 2 spacecraft had been lost three months before it reached Mars. Zond […]
After the launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellites, the US found itself scrambling to get its first satellites into orbit. But in order to repair […]
The impact of the first human to fly into space can hardly be appreciated today in this age of a continuous human presence in Earth orbit. […]
At the beginning of the Space Age, a number of new technologies were being examined to support increasingly sophisticated missions then being considered. Among these were […]
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