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A spacecraft is using the Martian atmosphere to get closer to the planet
Space // 

A roughly to-scale diagram showing the progress made by the ExoMars TGO. The thick grey lines mark decreases in one ...

Mary Beth Griggs at 15:19 PM Feb 5 2018
Where In The World Is The Orion Spacecraft?
Space Travel // 

The Orion spacecraft is on the move, but maybe not in a way you would expect. Strapped to a trailer, the spacecraft, ...

Meaghan Lee Callaghan at 11:40 AM Jun 17 2016
4 Things We Learned About Comets From The Busted Philae Lander
Space // 

The little spacecraft that couldn't quite land on a comet has nevertheless sent back a wealth of data. The Philae ...

Sarah Fecht at 15:25 PM Jul 31 2015
Voyager's Golden Record For Aliens Now Available On SoundCloud
Space // 

When the twin Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, they carried with them two Golden Records encoded with the sounds ...

Sarah Fecht at 08:44 AM Jul 28 2015
We Made It To Pluto! What's Next For New Horizons?
Space // 

Nine years ago, a piano-sized spacecraft left the cradle of Earth to visit a strange world on the edge of the solar ...

Sarah Fecht at 10:31 AM Jul 15 2015
For The First Time, A Manmade Spacecraft Is Orbiting A Dwarf Planet
Space // 

At 7:39 EST this morning, the dwarf ...

Sarah Fecht at 07:18 AM Mar 10 2015
What Happened in the Apollo 1 Fire?
Space Travel // 

On January 27, 2020, spacecraft 012 was mated to its service module and Saturn IB rocket, and the whole stack was on ...

Amy Shira Teitel at 09:43 AM Jan 28 2015
 
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