Click to open image viewer. This is a 1/24th scale model of Mariner 2, the space probe that on December 14, 1962, radioed back to Earth useful scientific information from another planet, in this case ...
Your guides to the weird side of the web explain Mysterium Cosmographicum and Kepler's planetary model.
Click to open image viewer. This model of the Magellan space probe, with its Inertial Upper Stage booster, depicts the first dedicated U.S. mission to study the surface of Venus in detail. Magellan’s ...