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Voyager 2On the 20th of August 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This launch was part of a unique planetary…
Cassini–HuygensThe Cassini, Huygens mission began its life in 1982 when the European Science Foundation and the American National Academy of Sciences formed a working group.
Voyager 1Voyager 1 lifted off from Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the 5th of September 1977. It rode atop a Titan IIIE launch vehicle…
Galileo (spacecraft)Consideration of sending a probe to Jupiter began as early as 1959. NASA's Scientific Advisory Group for Outer Solar System Missions evaluated the…
Curiosity (rover)Curiosity touched down on Mars at 05:17:57 UTC on the 6th of August 2012. The landing site sat inside Gale crater near a location now called Bradbury Landing.
New HorizonsIn August 1992, JPL scientist Robert Staehle called Clyde Tombaugh to ask for permission to visit his planet. Tombaugh later remembered the conversation by…
Viking 1The Titan/Centaur rocket lifted off from Earth on the 20th of August 1975. This launch vehicle carried the Viking 1 spacecraft toward its distant target.