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more about #spaceexploration more comments → Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.: sending this off to the print shop tomorrow - this'll look great in my classroom! more » twophrasebark: This doesn't show any of the Stargate missions. more » Ruthless, If you let me: Mysterious black box: I wonder what was censored above Pioneer 10 & below Ganymede in the lower right corner? Must be an alien space station. more » acrobatic rabbit: a graphic designer's orgasm. thanks io9! more » LittleDragon: That is a beautiful map. Would love to have a giant version on my wall. more » Janglesatwest: Only 200 missions in 50 years? Why does it seem that number should be higher? That's not hit against NASA and others, they really are making the mot o... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: "First craft to approach Uranus." TEEHEEHEE! I wonder if Johann Bode saw all this schoolboy humor coming? more » TemporalSword: That's pretty cool. more » Belabras: I love the map. Just wish the page displayed it bigger. more » Roklimber: Lemme guess... the Russians detected a signal from Venus directed to the Nazca plains of Peru... more » Sockatume: "Plots"? Really, BBC? It's not the cold war any more, we don't have to worry that they'll steal all the green-skinned alien space babes. As good a ti... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: They plan to set up an outpost for the first interplanetary mail-order bride scam... more » OlavRokne: 1985 is not "over three decades ago." more » Bill-Lee: Lame jokes aside, I think it is important to study all of the planets in the Solar System so we better understand the conditions that make life here o... more » lightninglouie: Yeah, this should go well until duplicates of the survey team's dead spouses start showing up. more » -
#chartporn
50 Years, 200 Missions, One Enormous Map
Have trouble keeping track of the nearly 200 past and current missions to explore our solar system and beyond? National Geographic's elegant infographic displays 50 years of space exploration in a colorful map of our planetary neighbors. More » -
#venus
Forget Mars — Russia Sets Its Sights on Venus
While other space programs are sending probes to explore the surface of Mars or the moon, Russian scientists have their eyes on another target: Venus, a planet last explored by Soviet scientists over two decades ago. More » -
#spaceexploration
Earth to Mars in 39 Days
A six-month space journey away, Mars often seems an almost impossible planet to reach. But engineers are developing a new engine that could turn six months to six weeks, bringing the Red Planet much, much closer than ever before. More » -
#mooniversary
Apollo 11 Astronauts Push For A Mission To Mars
Last friday, at the National Museum of the USAF, the Apollo 11 astronauts participated in a panel discussion about their historic Moon landing. They spent a good portion of the discussion, however, not on the Moon — but Mars. More » -
#spaceday
Celebrate Space Day With The Shuttle Astronauts And An ISS Webcam
Today is the 12th Annual Space Day, an event that's jointly hosted by NASA and Lockheed Martin, held each year on the first of May. This year's theme is titled : 'Celebrating Human Space Flight: Past, Present and Future'. More » -
#spacepornographers
Pack Your SPF-5 Billion: We're Going To The Sun!
We're sending not one, but two probes to the sun in the next few years. Hopefully making first contact with the super-hot aliens who have been watching us from inside the solar coronas. Gallery below. More » -
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#lunarexploration
Apollo 16: Man, we're on our way!
Those were the words of Charlie Duke, the Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 16, which launched 37 years ago today. More » -
#spaceexploration
China Lands on the Moon - Sort of
On Sunday, the Chinese space program announced that their satellite, Chang'e-I, ended its 16 month mapping mission with a planned crash on the lunar surface, destroying the craft. More » -
#spaceexploration
A New Explanation For Why We'll Never Visit Other Suns
Pessimism about our spacefaring future has become fashionable these days — people point to our limited lifespans and energy resources. But the World Of Technology blog just posted an argument I haven't seen before. More » -
#spaceexploration
The Future Of Space Exploration?
Black smoke belches out of a grinding old engine as it hauls Russia's latest Soyuz space capsule across a Kazakh wasteland, while armed guards keep watch. This mixture of high and low technology is probably the future of space exploration, as resources get scarcer and more small governments and independent operators get into the space game. More images of Soyuz in the wasteland, and its launch to the International Space Station, below. More »
