Posted 10.12.2009 at 4:49 pm
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A Visual History of Space Exploration: National Geographic
Each line represents a different space mission, highlighting notable missions, including those from different countries, those of historical significance, and those which have failed. (The map doesn't seem to make note of the recent LCROSS mission, where a rocket plowed into the moon to probe for water.)
Did you know there have been three more missions to Venus more than Mars (43 to 40)? Check out the whole thing for yourself here.
[via National Geographic via Fast Company]
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That's a pretty neat chart.
There's have been surprisingly few missions to Uranus.
...It's the Internet, what do you expect??
OMG! I was just thinking yesterday "I wonder what every space mission from the last 50 years looks like on a map."
That's just amazing. I wonder when Vger is going to come back and haunt us.
-He who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the one who is doing it.
now, c'mon, Advent. You know as well as anyone else that we have to find the hot Deltan chick first, then Vger comes home.
That's cool. 10 billion miles for Vger! It should be running into those helpful mechaliens that fix it any day now. Looks like they are predicting Pluto orbit for July 14,2015. So, that would be either Vger 2 or what? Pioneer 1?
Can we get a hi-res downloadable version?
Can we get a hi-res downloadable version?
Now I feel stupid...
Whats with the black void in the bottom right that cuts off some of the lines?
from Poughkeepsie, NY
Why do they all seem to go to that one place in the center-left?
I really hope that was a joke