Space & Missions
Space Travel
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Space & Missions
In May 1992, after two failed attempts to capture a 4.5-tonne communications…
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In November 1970, a Soviet rover the size of a bathtub rolled off the Luna 17…
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Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev stayed in orbit so long that the country which launched…
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Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice within a minute of launch and survived…
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In 1957, the Soviet Union launched a metal sphere the size of a beach ball into…
Space Travel
About 50 kilometres above Venus’ surface, the crushing heat and pressure below give…
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Within hours of reaching microgravity, astronauts’ body fluids shift toward the…
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station witness 16 sunrises and 16…
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A Russian module called Zvezda has been venting the space station's air through…
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The International Space Station weighs 420 tons and stretches the length of an…
Human Factors
On 12 April 1961, a 27-year-old Russian fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the…
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In November 2011, NASA launched a car-sized rover called Curiosity toward Mars on a…
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In April 1970, three American astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were 320,000 kilometres…
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In June 2024, a small Chinese spacecraft called Chang'e-6 became the first machine…
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