Imagine this scenario: you have an important space telescope that’s rapidly sinking in altitude, slated to crash down to Earth next year unless you can nudge it back up. Arizona-based private space ...
In an effort to oust the Soviets in the space race, NASA’s Mariner I spacecraft was prepared to make history as the first spacecraft to complete a flyby survey of Venus. Then, on July 22, 1962, the ...
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