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Keywords: Stardust project, spacecraft
![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...
![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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