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This image made available by NASA in March 2017 shows Pluto illuminated from behind by the sun as the New Horizons spacecraft travels away from it at a distance of about 120,000 miles. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP)
Triumph, Tragedy and Ennui: Three NASA Missions That Shaped the Future of Space Exploration

We look back at the first unmanned spacecraft landing on Mars in 1976, the Challenger tragedy in 1986, and the long-game Pluto mission launched in 2006.

Triumph, Tragedy and Ennui: Three NASA Missions That Shaped the Future of Space Exploration

Go on an adventure into unexpected corners of the health and science world each week with award-winning host Maiken Scott. The Pulse will take you behind the doors of operating rooms, into the lab with some of the world’s foremost scientists, and back in time to explore life-changing innovations. The Pulse delivers stories in ways that matter to you, and answers questions you never knew you had.

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