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On this day in space! Sept. 30, 2016: Europe's Rosetta spacecraft crash lands on Comet 67P, ending an epic mission (opens the original)
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On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. The Rosetta spacecraft launched in 2004 and spent 10 years chasing down Comet 67P, a rubber-duck-shaped space rock that orbits the sun between Earth and Jupiter. Rosetta spent the next two years tagging along with the comet as it traveled through the solar system. When it was time for the mission to end, Rosetta gently crashed into the comet. The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to a comet wa
On this day in space! Sept. 29, 1977: The Soviet Union's Salyut 6 space station launches into orbit for long-duration spaceflights (opens the original)
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On Sept. 29, 1977, the Soviet Union launched its Salyut 6 space station into orbit. This was the eighth space station the Soviet Union launched under its Salyut program and the first second-generation Salyut space station. Unlike its predecessors, Salyut 6 was able to accommodate long-duration crewed missions. It launched into orbit on a Proton-K rocket. Over the course of its five years in operation, 16 cosmonaut crews visited the station. The longest anyone stayed there was 185 days. The space
On this day in space! Sept. 28, 1962: Canada's 1st satellite Alouette 1 launches into orbit from California on a Thor-Agena rocket (opens the original)
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On Sept. 28, 1962, Canada launched its first satellite, Alouette 1. This made Canada the third country to build and launch its own satellite after the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Alouette 1 was designed to study Earth's ionosphere, which is a region in the upper atmosphere that is ionized by solar and cosmic radiation. The mission lasted 10 years before the satellite was decommissioned, but the derelict satellite is still orbiting the Earth. While the launch of Alouette 1 lifted off on Sept. 28,
On this day in space! Sept. 27, 1997: NASA's Mars Pathfinder lander sends its last transmission to Earth (opens the original)
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On Sept. 27, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission beamed its very last data transmission back to Earth. Pathfinder was three months into what was supposed to be just a one-month mission on Mars when the base station's battery began to fail. NASA struggled to reestablish contact with Pathfinder for another five months before giving up and calling the mission complete. The Mars Pathfinder mission consisted of a base station and the very first Mars rover named Sojourner. NASA launched the Pathfinde
On this day in space! Sept. 26, 1983: Russian cosmonauts narrowly escape Soyuz rocket explosion during harrowing launch abort (opens the original)
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On Sept. 26, 1983, a Russian Soyuz rocket exploded on the launchpad. Two cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Gennady Strekalov were inside their Soyuz T-10-1 spacecraft atop the rocket, and they barely made it out alive. Titov and Strekalov's mission was intended to launch the cosmonauts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the Salyut 7 space station. But about 90 seconds before their rocket was supposed to launch, a fire erupted on the launchpad. Thankfully, the emergency abort escape system
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