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Trajectory of Mariner 10. After launch and flyby of Venus, it orbited the Sun to fly by Mercury three times.
A backup Mariner spacecraft hangs in the National Air and Space Museum’s Milestones of Flight gallery.
Beginning in 1961, U.S. manned space missions were controlled from this room, "Mercury Control," at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
This is a model of a platform that is isolated from the movements of the ship, allowing those movements to be measured.
The Motorola LGT 1000 was used for better accuracy by scientists.
This illustration depicts NEAR-Shoemaker after landing on the asteroid Eros.
Illustration of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in 2015.
In the 1990s, the NIST-7 was the most accurate clock in the country and helped keep the GPS clocks synchronized.
The Astroinertial Navigation System provided rapid celestial navigation fixes for the SR-71.
A rubidium clock like this was tested on the NTS-2 satellite to see if clocks could keep accurate time in space.
