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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
The International Space Station weighs 420 tons and stretches the length of an American…
A moon only 10 kilometres wide was hiding around Uranus for decades
In November 2011, NASA launched a car-sized rover called Curiosity toward Mars on a…
In April 1970, three American astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were 320,000 kilometres from…
There is no permanently dark side of the Moon
In 1995, astronomers aimed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch of sky that…
In June 2024, a small Chinese spacecraft called Chang'e-6 became the first machine in…
In April 2001, the crew of Shuttle Endeavour bolted a Canadian-built robotic arm to the…
A small European spacecraft called Philae became the first machine in human history to…
In 2028, China plans to launch the Tianwen-3 mission to the surface of Mars, drill two…
