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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, then scientists found its…
In 1970 a Soviet probe became the first object ever to transmit from the surface of…
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched before Google, before the smartphone era, and…
America is preparing to land humans on the Moon while quietly proposing to terminate 53…
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 24 billion kilometres away, but in 2024…
When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to Mir in May 1991, the country that…
SpaceX’s IPO filing isn’t just about rockets
The astronauts on the International Space Station see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every…
The Hubble Space Telescope's main mirror was ground to the wrong shape by 2.2…
The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were found to be decelerating slightly more than…
