Humanity has visited the dwarf planet Pluto – the first-ever Kuiper Belt Object visited by a spacecraft – as NASA’s New Horizons probe cruised by the space body that was placed at the center of the debate of planet-hood in 2006 and a planetary object that has sparked significant intrigued and pride for millions since its discovery in 1930.
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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V has been selected as the rocket of choice by NASA’s…
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United Launch Alliance are conducting its seventy-fifth launch Wednesday morning, with the Atlas V tasked…
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The hotly contested question has been answered: Voyager 1 is humanity’s first object to enter…
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For NASA’s unmanned explorers, 2012 was an astonishing year filled with discoveries and observations inside…
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On the 50th anniversary of Britain’s first journey into space, the European Space Agency (ESA)…
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It was an interesting year for NASA as the 2011 calendar brought about the retirement…
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Like its sister probe Voyager 2, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been an instrumental force…
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On August 20, 1977, the intrepid spacecraft Voyager 2 launched from the Cape Canaveral Air…
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An Atlas V rocket has launched with NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) from Cape Canaveral Air…
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NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has been launched via an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL launch…