50 Years of Space Exploration
2009.10.28
50 years of Exploration map from National Geographic.
It really is amazing how relatively few missions failed considering the use of what we now see as antiquated and, at the time, untested technologies being used to perform such daring missions. Kudos to every scientist, engineer, astronaut, cosmonaut, astronomer, factory worker, mathematician, physicist, and bureaucrat that made these missions possible and more successful than we could imagine.
[hattip: Laughing Squid]