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Sixty years ago we thought there might be civilizations on Venus and Mars. Then we actually went. This is the visual history of every successful interplanetary mission, from Sputnik and Explorer 1 through Mariner, Venera, Viking, the Voyagers, Galileo and Cassini, to Perseverance and the five probes still in flight right now. Along the way: how Soviet and American design philosophies split from the very first satellite, why the Soviet planetary program stalled after Korolev died, how a Soviet Mars launch during the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly read as an ICBM attack, and how each discovery quietly rewrote science fiction, from Martian invasions to interstellar Star Trek. It ends where the search for life stands today: the leopard spots on Mars, and the sample return mission that hasn’t been approved yet.
