Carl Sagan, a member of the Viking science team, posing with a life-size model of the Viking Lander in Death Valley, California in the mid-1970s. At the time, Sagan was professor of astronomy at Cornell University. Credit: NASA/JPL
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This false color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot taken by Voyager 1 was assembled from three black-and-white negatives. Credit: NASA/JPL
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Spacecraft mission details including launch date and vehicle
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Satellite with prominent radio dish antenna.
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An image from the HiRISE instrument on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows a fissure, less than 500 meters across at its widest point, on Olympus Mons on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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Scientists working on a spacecraft component in a clean environment.
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An artist’s rendering of ESA’s Gaia astrometry spacecraft. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
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Dawn spacecraft from Earth
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Composite of images taken by the Soviet Mars 5 spacecraft from Martian orbit on 23 February 1974. Credit: Don Mitchell
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Historical spacecraft success data by year
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A simplified illustration of the Russian Fobos-Grunt lander package. The half-spherical object at the top was the descent capsule that would carry samples from the Martian moon Phobos back to Earth. Credit: ESA/Lavochkin Association
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Chang’e 5-T1 lunar mission from Earth
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During the Pioneer IV mission, NASA tested a new space communications system. One component of the system was this 26-meter diameter antenna at Goldstone, California, the first of several antennas that would later constitute nodes in NASA’s Deep Space Network. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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A lifesize model of the Luna 16 lander at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow. Credit: Asif Siddiqi
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MAVEN spacecraft at 242.98 million km from Earth.
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This plaque on board Curiosity bears the signatures of several U.S. officials including that of then-President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden. The image was taken by the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on 19 September 2012, the rover’s 44th Martian day on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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Pioneer VI was the first in a series of solar-orbiting spacecraft designed to obtain measurements on a continuing basis of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space. Credit: NASA
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New Horizons spacecraft at 6.20 billion km from Earth.
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Pioneer III being assembled by technicians. Credit: NASA
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Scientific experiments on the Ranger Block II spacecraft. Credit: NASA
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This mosaic of Pluto’s largest moon Charon was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons just prior to closest approach on 14 July 2015. The scene at the bottom is approximately 200 kilometers. Resolution is as high as 310 meters. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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This simulated color global view of the surface of Venus taken by Magellan is centered at 180 ° E longitude. Data gaps in Magellan’s data were filled in by information from Pioneer Venus. Most notably, the simulated hues are based on color images from the Soviet Venera 13 and Venera 14 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL
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Spitzer Space Telescope at 245.39 million km from Earth.
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Engineers process NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch to Saturn on 15 October 1997. Credit: NASA
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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured this oblique view of the Moon, looking east-to-west over the Apennine Mountains towards Hadley Rille (upper left). Mount Hadley, at center right, casts a long shadow. The crew of Apollo 15 landed between the Apennines and Hadley Rile in 1971. Credit: NASA/Arizona State University
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This image was taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on 30 October 2016. Taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam), the photo shows a smooth-surfaced object about the size of a golf ball which was informally named ’Egg Rock.’ The grid of shiny points visible in the object resulted from laser pulses produced by Curiosity’s Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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A scientific instrument or experimental setup.
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The moon’s surface with impact craters.
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A ground model of the Apollo 15 Particles and Fields Satellite. Credit: NASA
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First image of the Moon returned by a Ranger mission (Ranger VII in 1964). Credit: NASA
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LISA Pathfinder space probe from Earth
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The year 1969, significant in space exploration history.
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Artemis spacecraft from Earth
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