... On Saturday the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral ... a Delta II rocket lifted the robot spacecraft, located in the nose cone, off the ... The spacecraft's name is a tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey , an epic fictional ...
... Explanation: Cruising through the outer solar system, the Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune on August 25, 1989, the only spacecraft to visit the most distant ice giant planet . ...
... Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft , but their origin was a mystery. ... Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that these rings were created by ...
... This picture was snapped by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 - the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus . Uranus has many moons and a ring system. ...
... Explanation: Today, at about 3 pm EST, the first human-made spacecraft is scheduled to touchdown on an asteroid . ... 8 kilometers per hour, it is most probable that the robot spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker will not survive its planned collision with ...
... Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft , but their origin was a mystery. ... Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that these rings were created by ...
... Explanation: The Deep Impact spacecraft continues to close on Comet Tempel 1, a comet roughly the size of Manhattan. ... Early on July 3 (EDT), the Deep Impact spacecraft will separate in to two individual robotic spaceships, one called Flyby and ...