His successful flight validated American plans for a human suborbital flight.
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Ham experiences low earth orbit
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Space shuttle Challenger explodes
All seven crew members died.
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Jupiter, the fifth planet
Enjoy the spectacle that is Jupiter, fifth planet from the sun and the largest in our solar system. A gas giant, Jupiter’s mass is more than 2.5 times that of the other planets combined. Yet it is teeny relative to the sun (less than one-thousandth its mass). Images (2019) are from JunoCam, the camera that […]