NASA

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Earth & Climate Natural Disasters

33 Chilean miners were trapped underground

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Technology Transportation

A jet engine works by squeezing air, setting it on fire, and shoving it backward

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Space Solar System

A massive explosion flattened a Siberian forest

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Space Solar System

A solar eclipse halts a battle, the oldest event dated to the day

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Space Solar System

A total solar eclipse crossed Europe and Asia

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Space Space Exploration

Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 12 made the second crewed Moon landing

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 13 launched toward the Moon before its near-fatal accident

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 13's oxygen tank exploded, prompting 'Houston, we've had a problem'

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 15 landed the first car on the Moon

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 17 made the last crewed landing on the Moon

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 17 splashed down, ending the Apollo Moon program

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 7 launched, restoring crewed American spaceflight

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 8 launched, carrying the first humans to the Moon

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 8 read from Genesis while orbiting the Moon

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 9 gave the lunar module its first crewed test

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Technology Transportation

Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier

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History Ancient

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid

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Earth & Climate Ecosystems

Coral reefs cover under 1% of the seafloor but shelter a quarter of marine life

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Space Space Exploration

Ed White became the first American to walk in space

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Space Space Exploration

Eugene Cernan became the last human to walk on the Moon

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Space Space Exploration

Explorer 1 becomes the first U.S. satellite and discovers the Van Allen belts

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Space Solar System

Galileo discovers Jupiter's largest moons

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Space Astrophysics

Galileo Galilei is born

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Space Space Exploration

Gemini III carried the first US two-person crew to orbit

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Space Space Exploration

Gemini 4 began America's first long-duration spaceflight

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Geography Landmarks & Wonders

You cannot see the Great Wall of China from space with the naked eye

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Earth & Climate Geology

The oldest piece of Earth is a crystal older than the rocks around it

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Space Space Exploration

John Glenn orbits the Earth

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Space Stars & Galaxies

Kepler's Supernova blazed into view over Europe

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Space Space Exploration

Laika became the first living creature to orbit Earth

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Space Space Exploration

Luna 2 became the first spacecraft to reach the Moon

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Space Space Exploration

Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet

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Space Space Exploration

Monkeys Able and Baker become the first to survive a spaceflight and return alive

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Space Space Exploration

NASA introduced the Mercury Seven, America's first astronauts

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Space Space Exploration

NASA launched the final Space Shuttle mission

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Space Space Exploration

NASA launched the Juno probe to Jupiter

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Space Space Exploration

NASA launched the Mars Pathfinder mission

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Space Space Exploration

NASA launched the Viking 1 Mars mission

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Space Space Exploration

NASA launches Skylab, America's first space station

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Space Space Exploration

NASA was created to lead American spaceflight

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Space Space Exploration

Neil Armstrong took the first human steps on the Moon

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Space Astrophysics

The man who moved Earth out of the center

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Space Solar System

Pluto's giant moon Charon was discovered in a photographic smudge

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Space Space Exploration

President Kennedy commits the US to landing a man on the Moon

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Space Space Exploration

Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket

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Space Space Exploration

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space

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Space Space Exploration

Skylab fell back to Earth, scattering debris over Australia

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Space Space Exploration

Soviet Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the Moon's vicinity

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Space Space Exploration

Soviet Union launches Mir space station core

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Space Space Exploration

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on reentry

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Space Space Exploration

Space shuttle Endeavour launches on its maiden flight

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Space Space Exploration

The Space Shuttle returned to flight after Challenger

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Space Space Exploration

Sputnik 1 launched, opening the Space Age

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Space Space Exploration

Sputnik 2 weighed six times more than the first satellite

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Language & Communication Media & Communication

Telstar, the first communications satellite, launched

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Space Space Exploration

The Apollo 1 fire kills three astronauts

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Space Space Exploration

Apollo 11's crew splashed down safely in the Pacific

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Space Space Exploration

The first module of the ISS reached orbit

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Space Space Exploration

The first Saturn V thundered off the pad on Apollo 4

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Space Space Exploration

The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, launched into orbit

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Space Solar System

The planet Neptune was discovered by mathematics

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Space Space Exploration

The Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after launch

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Space Space Exploration

The US launched Explorer 4 to study Earth's radiation belts

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Space Space Exploration

The Vanguard 1 satellite was launched

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Space Space Exploration

Two dogs returned alive from orbit aboard Sputnik 5

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Space Space Exploration

Viking 1 made the first successful US landing on Mars

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Space Space Exploration

Viking 2 landed on Mars and sent back images

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Space Solar System

Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Jupiter

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Space Solar System

William Herschel discovered Saturn's moon Enceladus

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Space Solar System

William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus

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Space Space Exploration

Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space

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Space Space Exploration

Humans have lived in space without a break since November 2000

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Religion & Beliefs Mythology

The planets are named after Roman gods

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