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On this day in 2005, NASA's Deep Impact mission launched. Its mission, successfully completed in July 2005, was to deploy an impactor to collide with the comet Tempel 1. Once finished, two Earth flybys let it encounter Hartley 2 in 2010.
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On this day in 2005, NASA's Deep Impact mission launched. Its mission, successfully completed in July 2005, was to deploy an impactor to collide with the comet Tempel 1. Once finished, two Earth flybys let it encounter Hartley 2 in 2010.
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On this day in 1968, Surveyor 7, the final mission in the program, landed by Tycho crater on the Moon. The mission survived through the lunar night, and returned over 20,000 photos of the lunar environment.
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On this day in 1968, Surveyor 7, the final mission in the program, landed by Tycho crater on the Moon. The mission survived through the lunar night, and returned over 20,000 photos of the lunar environment.
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Yesterday, BepiColombo, ESA and JAXA's joint Mercury orbiter performed its final flyby prior to orbital insertion next year. The flyby took it 300km [185mi] over Mercury's north pole, where it captured this stunning image shown today.
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Source: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Yesterday, BepiColombo, ESA and JAXA's joint Mercury orbiter performed its final flyby prior to orbital insertion next year. The flyby took it 300km [185mi] over Mercury's north pole, where it captured this stunning image shown today.
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Source: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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On this day in 1990, STS-32 Columbia launched to LEO, retrieving the Long Duration Exposure Facility. LDEF, launched in 1984 and stranded in orbit following numerous delays, gave crucial insights on how different materials survive in space.
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On this day in 1990, STS-32 Columbia launched to LEO, retrieving the Long Duration Exposure Facility. LDEF, launched in 1984 and stranded in orbit following numerous delays, gave crucial insights on how different materials survive in space.
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We are Rocket Tester, an educational in-development game on Roblox where you'll build space stations, launch real, historical, and conceptual rockets, around every planet of the solar system!
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We are Rocket Tester, an educational in-development game on Roblox where you'll build space stations, launch real, historical, and conceptual rockets, around every planet of the solar system!
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#GameDev #Roblox #RocketTester