Except we (yes, I'm left-handed) left-handed people don't demand an entire month devoted to us, don't demand endless corporate & political endorsements & don't have parades emphasizing male genitals just because we're left-handed. Tell Foster that if she'll listen.
#OTS in 1983, Pioneer 10 passed the most distant planet in our solar system, Neptune. Even though this was before Pluto was declassified, at the time Neptune was the furthest because Pluto's unusual orbit brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune at certain times.
ALT An illustration of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft traveling through space with a backdrop of the Milky Way galaxy, highlighting deep space exploration.
40 years ago today, we lost visionary space artist Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986). Long before rockets flew from Cape Canaveral, his stunning paintings of space stations, Moon landings, and Mars missions inspired the engineers and astronauts who made them reality.
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ALT Brutalist buildings are framed against a yellow sky. An explosion is rising up from one rooftop, surrounded by oblong spaceships hanging in the sky. Title: Childhood's End, Arthur C Clarke.