‘There are those who believe that somewhere in the vast blackness of space, about nine billion miles from the Sun, the first human is about to cross the boundary of our Solar System into interstellar space.’ How a pair of brothers from Turin listened in on the USSR space programme, and what they claim to have heard. Sent a chill up my spine.

‘Wristwatches calibrated in Martian time, rather than Earth time, were used by many of the MER team members.’

It cost less than a 747!

Propaganda fail.

Layman's overview of how the Space Shuttle programmers write code and avoid bugs.

Mars has clouds!

Never mind Y2K: the shuttle computers ‘were never envisioned to fly through a year-end changeover’.

Orbital facility.