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Keywords: NEAR project, asteroid, spacecraft, Eros
![Необыкновенное путешествие](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/17/0001231394/ATVreentry_c800.preview.jpg)
17.10.2008
Nineteenth century science fiction author Jules Verne wrote visionary works about Extraordinary Voyages including tales of space flight and the story of a journey From the Earth to the Moon. Fittingly, the European Space...
!["Liberty Bell 7"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/10/20/0001208811/libertybell7_rec_big.preview.jpg)
6.05.1999
Today, the space capsule Liberty Bell 7 rests about 3 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. But on July 21, 1961, astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom rode this tiny craft 118 miles above the Earth to become the second American in space.
![Сверху Мир](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/26/0001197305/mir_sts89.preview.jpg)
3.07.1998
Photographed from the approaching Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Mir space station floats above the clouds of planet Earth. Mir's modular construction, bristling with solar panels and antennas, lends it a slightly whimsical, insect-like appearance.
![Одиссей около Марса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/10/25/0001171938/marsodyssey_illus.preview.jpg)
25.10.2001
After an interplanetary journey lasting 200 days, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has entered orbit around the Red Planet. This latest success is welcome as in the past, Mars has often seemed a difficult planet to visit.
![Вид планеты Земля с космического корабля #1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/06/25/0001198552/14pssone_scaled_c1.preview.jpg)
25.06.2004
On June 21st, pilot Mike Melvill made a historic flight in the winged craft dubbed SpaceShipOne -- the first private manned mission to space. The spaceship reached an altitude of just over 62 miles (100 kilometers) on a suborbital trajectory, similar to the early spaceflights in NASA's Mercury Program. So, how was the view?
![Европа глазами Галилея](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/20/0001193052/europa1_gal_c1.preview.jpg)
19.09.2003
Launched in 1989 and looping through the jovian system since late 1995, the voyage of NASA's Galileo spacecraft will soon come to an end. The spacecraft has been targeted to plunge directly into Jupiter this Sunday, September 21st, at about 30 miles per second.
![Под солнечным парусом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/03/08/0001187394/solarsail_msfc.preview.jpg)
8.03.2003
Nearly 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler observed comet tails blown by a solar breeze and suggested that vessels might likewise navigate through space using appropriately fashioned sails. It is now widely recognized that...
![Двуцветный кратер на астероиде Эрос](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/01/22/0001165932/whitecrater_near.preview.jpg)
22.01.2001
What lies beneath the surface of asteroid Eros? This image taken two weeks ago by the robot NEAR spacecraft orbiting the dark asteroid shows a kilometer-wide crater where some type of light material lies beneath some of the darker surface regolith.
![Полный газ Deep Space 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166718/ds1_jpl_big.preview.jpg)
31.08.2000
At full throttle the Deep Space 1 spacecraft's innovative ion drive produces about 1/50th of a pound of thrust ... a force so great that it would just about hold up a piece of paper on planet Earth! Still, powered by solar arrays ion propulsion systems can run continuously.
![Солнечный парус](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/10/12/0001171157/solarsail_msfc_m.preview.jpg)
26.05.2000
Nearly 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler observed comet tails blown by a solar breeze and suggested that vessels might likewise navigate through space using appropriately fashioned sails. It is now widely recognized that...
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