On June 25, 1997, a Russian Progress M-34 spacecraft collided with the Russian Mir space station. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...
On June 24, 1999, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
China's Shenzhou 21 astronauts returned to Earth on Friday (May 29), wrapping up a record-breaking, and very eventful, space mission.
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Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...