New Horizons Rocketed to Pluto on a Record-Breaking Orbit

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New Horizons was launched into space one afternoon in 2006 on an unprecedented journey towards Pluto. Carrying an array of instruments with it, New Horizons broke records as it set course towards this distant planet. Visible light cameras could count craters, map hills and valleys, scan for frosty methane lakes and observe how stars dim…

Nations Want to Build Spacecraft to the Moon and Return Astronauts

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Nations aim to build spacecraft that can land astronauts on the Moon and return them safely, as well as explore more about this distant destination in order to make it suitable for human settlement and exploration. To do so, they have adopted the basic rocket design that NASA pioneered with Sputnik. The Space Race After…