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Anna Fisher in 1985 - one of the first US women in space, and the longest running active NASA astronaut.
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A mosaic image of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on November 6, 1980, shows approximately 95 individual concentric features in the rings. The ring structure was once thought to be produced by the gravitational interaction between Saturn's satellites and the orbit of now been found to be too complex for this explanation alone.
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Time to drive 10 km:

10 km/h — 60 min
20 km/h — 30 min
30 km/h — 20 min
40 km/h — 15 min
50 km/h — 12 min
60 km/h — 10 min
70 km/h — 8:34
80 km/h — 7:30
90 km/h — 6:40
100 km/h — 6:00
110 km/h — 5:27
120 km/h — 5:00
130 km/h — 4:37

Going from 10 to 20 saves 30 minutes. Going from 120 to 130 saves 23 seconds.
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ISS with the lights out.
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The clearest picture of Mars ever taken!
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*Compact* Color TV Tape Recorder, the 1960s
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Plymouth Savoy push button automatic, 1963.
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Leyat Hélica, a French automobile produced between 1919 and 1925.
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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in 1965, the Ranger 9 spacecraft made a planned impact on the Moon. This video shows Ranger's last couple of seconds before impact.
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Pierce built single and 4-cylinder motorcycles from 1909 until 1914.
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Marie Curie working in her laboratory.
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This is Mimas a moon of Saturn, not the Death Star
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Australian city uses drainage nets to stop waste from polluting waterways.
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Between the time it was discovered and the time it was declassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun!
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Soviet spacecraft "Soyuz", photo from the ship "Apollo". The Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft docked on July 17, 1975, in a demonstration of how well the rendezvous and docking systems of each spacecraft would work with each other.
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Model T 'Elevator Garage', Chicago 1936.
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2020 was 2020 days ago.
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Nikola Tesla predicting smartphones more than 100 years ago:
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A 2-3-2 Soviet super-speed steam locomotive. Moscow, USSR, 1939.
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