Artist rendering of the Philae lander making a historic landing today (Nov. 12, 2014) on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA. Today the ESA successfully made space exploration history by landing a spacecraft on a comet’s surface. The suspense-ridden,...
Above: Artist rendering of the Luna 2 spacecraft shortly before impacting the Moon’s surface. Credit: Nick Stevens. September 13 marks a historic day in space travel when the Soviet ‘Luna 2’ spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the...
The first picture of the moon taken by a U.S. spacecraft in 1964. Credit: NASA. Roughly five years before the first manned moon-mission, NASA set out to get a better look at our lunar neighbor. A series of spacecraft called “Rangers” attempted the 240,000 mile...
