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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in…
The copper canisters Finland chose to seal its nuclear waste are expected by some…
The makers of the Voyager Golden Record could not assume an alien would understand…
When Soviet engineers landed Venera 13 on the surface of Venus in 1982, they expected…
In 1961, a young chimpanzee captured in Cameroon and trained at a New Mexico air force…
In April 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 navigated home by holding the spacecraft against…
When NASA's 77-tonne Skylab station fell out of orbit in 1979 and scattered debris…
Finland has spent decades building a tunnel 430 metres into 1.9-billion-year-old…
When the Galileo spacecraft's main antenna failed to unfurl on the way to Jupiter…
Ayisha Ashruf and her colleagues at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre tracked seventeen…
