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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]

3D rendering of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

“We pointed the most powerful telescope ever built by human beings at absolutely nothing, for no other reason than because we were curious.”