At 23:35 UTC on December 16, 1972, the Apollo 17 command module, America, executed its final trans-Earth injection burn, marking the end of an era in crewed lunar exploration as it embarked on its journey back to Earth. From that moment, over half a century passed without any human-capable spacecraft venturing close to Earth’s natural […]
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The countdown to a historic milestone in human space exploration has begun, as the Orion spacecraft prepares for its first crewed journey near the Moon since the early 1970s. Early on Saturday, January 17, the spacecraft, along with its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket encased in its mobile launch platform, made its way to Launch […]
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In December 1993, the Hubble Space Telescope underwent a critical repair mission after it was discovered that its optics were faulty. The telescope, which was launched in 1990, suffered from spherical aberration, meaning that the light rays did not converge at the same focal point. This affected the clarity and quality of the telescope’s observations. […]
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