... 2009 June 29 . Kaguya Spacecraft Crashes into the Moon . Credit Copyright : SELENE Team , JAXA , NHK . ... Explanation: Japan's Kaguya spacecraft crashed into the Moon last week, as planned. ...
... 2000 October 11 . Cassini Spacecraft Approaches Jupiter . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA . ... Explanation: A new spacecraft has entered the outer Solar System: Cassini . ...
... 2011 March 14 . Spacecrafts Streak Over Colorado . Credit Copyright: Robert Arn . ... What you are seeing, most likely, is a spacecraft in low Earth orbit reflecting back sunlight as it circles the Earth once ...
... 2011 February 16 . Comet Tempel 1 from Stardust-NeXT Spacecraft . Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Cornell . ... Therefore, the unprecedented pass of the Stardust-NeXT spacecraft near Comet Tempel 1 earlier this week gave humanity a unique ...
... 2009 November 23 . Crescent Earth from the Departing Rosetta Spacecraft . ... Earlier this month, ESA 's interplanetary Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar System. ...
... 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface ...
... 2008 September 8 . Rosetta Spacecraft Passes Asteroid Steins . Credit Copyright: Rosetta Team , ESA . ... Such was the case on Friday for ESA 's Rosetta spacecraft on its way to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. ...
... 2005 November 1 . A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station . Credit : ISS Expedition 11 Crew, NASA . ... Explanation: Last month, a Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. ...
... Saturn's Moon Epimetheus from the Cassini Spacecraft . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . ... question, this small moon has recently been imaged again in great detail by the robot spacecraft Cassini now orbiting Saturn ...