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Geography Borders & Maps

Point Nemo: the spot in the ocean so remote the nearest humans are usually astronauts

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Space Space Exploration

Alan Shepard tees off on the Moon

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Space Astrophysics

Columbus weaponizes a lunar eclipse in Jamaica

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Space Space Exploration

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars

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Space Space Exploration

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

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Technology Transportation

Humans first flew free in a Montgolfier balloon over Paris

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Space Space Exploration

Mariner 4 launched toward the first close-up photos of Mars

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Space Space Exploration

NASA launched the Curiosity rover toward Mars

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Space Space Exploration

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on reentry

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Space Space Exploration

SpaceShipOne made the first private crewed spaceflight

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Space Space Exploration

Sputnik 2 weighed six times more than the first satellite

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Space Space Exploration

The Soviet Lunokhod 1 became the first rover to drive on another world

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Space Space Exploration

Venera 7 sent the first signal from the surface of another planet

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Space Space Exploration

Viking 2 landed on Mars and sent back images

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Space Space Exploration

Voyager 1 launched on its journey to the stars

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Sports Extreme Sports

A skydiver once broke the sound barrier with his own body

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