On Sept. 4, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft performed the first-ever rocket maneuver in deep space as it did a quick mid-course correction on its way to Venus. It had launched just eight days ...
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Mariner 2 flew by Venus after a 3½-month voyage through space. The mission launched just one month ...
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched to Venus with Mariner 2, the world's first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet. On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched to Venus with Mariner 2, the world's first ...
On September 5, 1977, the power situation was a good deal healthier when the mission got underway. Launched just over two weeks after Voyager 2, Voyager 1 was scheduled to make flybys of Jupiter and ...
Mariner 10 may have been the last of the Mariner spacecraft series, but it was the first to complete many new tasks. It was the first U.S. spacecraft to visit two planets - Venus and Mercury - in one ...
From a moth lodged in a computer's relay component in 1947 to costly failures in space and healthcare — a retrospective on the bugs that rewired tech history.
The Asian American Pacific Islander Resource Center re-opened its office on campus after renovations with a grand opening and ...
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Regent Seven Seas Cruises announces the Once-in-a-Lifetime Solar Eclipse Voyage Collection, five voyages sailing the Med and ...
“The incident highlighted what many experts see as a dangerous, ‘pre-drone age mindset’ within the U.S. military,” wrote ...
Reece Walsh went from the proverbial villain to hero for the Broncos to return from the sin bin to propel them from a ...