Terms:
|NASA| |Space History|
Published:
29. 4. 2026.
In 1976, NASA achieved the first successful landing on Mars with a spacecraft whose name was later also associated with an Austrian lawn-mower company, integrated into STIHL in 2019. What was the name of that spacecraft?
Terms:
|Cold War| |Communications| |NASA| |Satellites| |Space History|
Published:
17. 4. 2026.
In 1960, the United States launched a metallized balloon that became a predecessor of modern communications satellites. It acted like a giant mirror, bouncing signals from one point on Earth back to another. What was this satellite called?