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Voyager at 30: Looking Beyond and Within
The twin spacecraft have become a fixture of pop culture, inspiring novels and playing a central role in television shows, music videos, songs and movies from the 1980s and 1990s.
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Apollo: A Look Back
One prominent NASA scientist takes a look back at the Apollo era at NASA.
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Upside-Down Astronauts
A little-known fact of the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions is that, upon splashdown, the space capsules rolled upside down in the ocean during about half of the landings.
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Using History to Design the Future
A space artifact from the past may hold an answer for tomorrow.
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Walter Schirra, 1923-2007
Wally Schirra, the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, has died. He was 84 years old.
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Pioneer Venus 1, Orbiter and Multiprobe spacecraft (included NASA Ames partnership)
Pioneer Venus consisted of two spacecraft launched separately to study Venus: the orbiter and the multiprobe. The Pioneer Venus 1 orbiter was launched May 20, 1978, from the Kennedy Space Center aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket. The Pioneer Venus multiprobe was launched on Aug. 8, 1978. It encountered Venus on Dec. 9, 1978. It consisted of five separate probes. The Sounder was released from the ‘Bus’ on Nov. 15, 1978; three small probes were released on Nov. 19, 1978.
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Stardust (Includes NASA Ames collaboration)
NASA's Stardust spacecraft delivered the first pristine, solid samples from outside the Earth-moon system when a capsule containing the comet materials parachuted into Utah in January 2006.
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NASA's Day of Remembrance
Today, we honor the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia astronauts, as well as others at NASA who have given their lives in pursuit of the dream of flight.
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Remembering Apollo 1
The NASA family stops to mourn the loss of the Apollo 1 crew in a fire at Pad 34 forty years ago.
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Remembering the Legacy of President Gerald Ford
President Ford will be remembered for his fundamental decency and his optimism about what our people can accomplish in the pursuit of ambitious goals, including the exploration of space.
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