He based the machine around an old Vidicon tube, a video recording technology that was used in NASA’s unmanned space probes prior the Galileo probe in the late 1970’s. We struggle a bit with ...

Soviet lunar probes had been ... first death to occur during a space flight. September 14: The Soviet Union sends Zond 5 around the moon and back to Earth in an unmanned test of their circumlunar ...

Interplanetary probes were a constant in the tech news bulletins of the 1960s and 1970s. The Space Race was at its height, and alongside their manned flights the two superpowers sent unmanned ...