2023-8-16
After a stop at Seattle-Tacoma airport to collect $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1.28 million today) and four parachutes, he leapt to an uncertain fate over southwestern Washington. Despite an extensive manhunt and a 45-year-long FBI investigation, the perpetrator's identity and fate remain unknown. The crime remains the only unsolved air piracy in commercial aviation history.
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After a stop at Seattle-Tacoma airport to collect $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1.28 million today) and four parachutes, he leapt to an uncertain fate over southwestern Washington. Despite an extensive manhunt and a 45-year-long FBI investigation, the perpetrator's identity and fate remain unknown. The crime remains the only unsolved air piracy in commercial aviation history.
2023-7-11
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015.
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015.#astronomy
2023-7-6
NASA’s X-59 research aircraft moves from its construction site to the flight line – or the space between the hangar and the runway – at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, on June 16, 2023.
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NASA’s X-59 research aircraft moves from its construction site to the flight line – or the space between the hangar and the runway – at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, on June 16, 2023.
2023-6-5
To mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) science team is announcing the upcoming release of a global colour mosaic of Mars that is unparalleled in the accuracy of its colour information and provides insight into the diverse composition of rock, sand and dust on the surface.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) science team is announcing the upcoming release of a global colour mosaic of Mars that is unparalleled in the accuracy of its colour information and provides insight into the diverse composition of rock, sand and dust on the surface.#astronomy
2023-5-25
The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission 2 private astronauts aboard on Monday, May 22, 2023.
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The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission 2 private astronauts aboard on Monday, May 22, 2023.
2023-5-18
Imagine a time with no #computers but with lots of craftsmanship and #creativity. This is my library of art & #design #history, inspiration from the past.
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2023-3-21
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks quite small in comparison to the giant planet behind it in this natural color view from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.
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Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks quite small in comparison to the giant planet behind it in this natural color view from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.#astronomy
2023-2-24
Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. Credit: NASA
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Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. Credit: NASA#history
2023-2-22
A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.
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A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.#astronomy #photography
