On March 23, 1875, the survey ship HMS Challenger paused over an unremarkable stretch of the western Pacific and lowered a weighted rope. It paid out 4,475 fathoms – 8,184 meters – before touching... Read More →
On February 20, 1947, a captured German V-2 rose from the New Mexico desert carrying the first travellers ever sent beyond the atmosphere: a small container of fruit flies. They rode to about 109... Read More →
Everyone who has ever walked on another world did it while Richard Nixon was in the White House. The first bootprints went into the Sea of Tranquility in the summer of 1969; by the... Read More →
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