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March 9, 1974 :
USSR Mars 7 Probe Reached Mars, But The Lander Separated 4 Hours Early And Missed The Planet By 1300 Km:
The USSR Mars 7 probe reached Mars, but the lander separated 4 hours early and missed the planet by 1300 km. Mars 4, 5, 6, and 7 comprised an associated group of Soviet spacecraft launched towards Mars in July and August of 1973. The Mars 7 interplanetary station was intended to be a Mars lander con ... More...

March 9, 1974
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March 9, 2002 :
US Shuttle Columbia STS-109 Astronauts Deployed The Hubble Space Telescope Back Into Orbit After Servicing:
US's NASA STS-109 astronauts deployed the Hubble Space Telescope back into orbit after completing the fourth HST servicing mission. The flight crew for STS 109 was Mission Commander Scott Altman, Pilot Duane Carey, Mission Specialist 1 Nancy Currie, Mission Specialist 2 John Grunsfeld, Mission Spec ... More...

March 9, 2002
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March 16, 1926 :
USA Robert Goddard Launches First Liquid Fuel Rocket To A Height Of 41 Feet During A 2.5 Second Flight
USA's Robert Goddard constructed and successfully tested the first rocket using liquid fuel at Auburn, Massachusetts which goes up 41 feet during a 2.5 second flight was as significant to history as that of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk. Goddard's rockets made little impression on government of ... More...

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March 15, 1928 :
DEU First Test Of A Rocket Car In A Small Stock Opel Vehicle Went Only 140 M In 35 Seconds
Germany's Max Valier campaigned to get automobile magnate Fritz von Opel interested in rocket-powered automobiles. Valier proposed to use combinations of motors to first boost an automobile to high speed with the high-thrust rockets, then use low-thrust units to maintain velocity. This had no practi ... More...

March 15, 2002
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A Mosaic of Cassiopeia

This mosaic of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explore, or WISE, in the constellation of Cassiopeia contains a large star-forming nebula within the Milky Way Galaxy, called IC 1805 or the Heart Nebula, a portion of which is seen at the right of the image. IC 1805 is more than 6,000 light-years from Earth. Also visible in this image are two nearby galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. In visible light these galaxies are hidden by dust in IC 1805 and were unknown until 1968 when Paolo Maffei found them using infrared observations. Both galaxies contain billions of stars and are located some 10 million light-years away. Maffei 1 is a lenticular galaxy, which has a disk-like structure and a central bulge but no spiral structure or appreciable dust content. Maffei 2 is a spiral galaxy that also has a disk shape, but with a bar-like central bulge and two prominent dusty spiral arms. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
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1951 Movie Flight to Mars
03-10-10

Space Travel Movies

This entry is part 8 of 7 in the series Space Travel Movies
The Martians live beneath the surface of Mars in a futuristic and highly advanced city. The Martians are an advanced and seemingly benevolent civilization who make the Earthlings feel at home. But their hospitality hides their real motive of conquest of the Earth in order to establish additional territory necessary for their own dying race. The chief of the Martian council Ikron secretly plots to kill the Earthmen and steal the secret of their rocket’s propulsion system so they can evacuate their dying race.

Listen to Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Episode 21 The Giants of Mercury, Part 1
03-12-10

Tom Corbett Space Cadet

This entry is part 23 of 22 in the series Tom Corbett Space Cadet
While being pursued in the Jet Boat they radio for help from Commander Burke back on Venus requesting additional forces. Burke doesn’t believe them and instead heads to Mercury in an unarmed Space Freighter because he didn’t believe their story of a giant man. He believes they have gone Zero A.

Whatever Became Of Space Patrol Actor Ed Kemmer?
03-14-10

Whatever Became Of

What ever became of Ed Kemmer, who played Commander “Buzz” Corry, Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol, in the popular ABC 1950’s sci-fi television and radio show Space Patrol.

Listen to Space Patrol Episode 20 The Mysterious Meteor
03-16-10

Space Patrol

This entry is part 22 of 21 in the series Space Patrol

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