The Common Space Fleet (1968)
As Apollo neared its first moon landing, NASA and its contractors sought to chart the U.S. civilian space program's post-Apollo future. Three underlying cost-cutting approaches...
Rainbow Map of Giant Asteroid Shows Planet-Like Features
A rainbow-colored map of the asteroid Vesta, obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, offers proof that the pumpkin-shaped rock is more like a terrestrial planet than...
New Asteroid Close-Ups Show Giant Cliffs, Mountains and Craters
NASA's robotic probe named Dawn has beamed back close-up images of asteroid Vesta, the second-most massive object in the Asteroid Belt.
Groovy Giant Asteroid Spins in New NASA Video
NASA today revealed the first close-up imagery of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our solar system. The ion-propelled spacecraft Dawn, which took nearly...
Spacecraft Visits Giant Asteroid This Weekend
A spacecraft launched in 2007 will soon slide into orbit around Vesta, the solar system’s second-heaviest asteroid. Located 117 million miles from Earth, Vesta has...
June 13, 1983: Pioneer 10 Reaches an End … and a Beginning
1983: Pioneer 10 becomes the first human-made object to pass outside Pluto’s orbit and leave the central solar system. Pioneer 10 must be considered one...