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Bell UH-1H Iroquois "Huey" Smokey III

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The Space Race

What exactly was the Space Race? Why did we care so much? The Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful countries after World War II. For a ...
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Smithsonian Planetary Image Facility

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ERCO Ercoupe 415-C

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Apollo 11 Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft

Traveling to the Moon and returning required three unique and technologically advanced pieces of spacecraft, from the Saturn V rocket, to the Command Module, Columbia, and the Lunar Module, Eagle.
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Echo 1 Communications Satellite

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Lithium Hydroxide Canister, Mock-up, Apollo 13 Emergency

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Robert J. Collier Trophy

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Lunar Module Test Article, LTA-1A/11D

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Telling Hubble's Story for 30 Years

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery. On April 25, it was deployed from the shuttle in a slow and purposeful dance ...