Oct 13

Every space mission we have ever done on one map!

- By Scott Johnson on October 13th, 2009

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When I heard about this map, and some folks had sent me the link, I honestly expected to feel a little let down about how little we have actually done, but it turns out, it’s rather impressive. Very much worth checking out.

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  1. Sylnic
    Sylnic
    October 13, 2009 at 1:48 pm | | Reply

    It’s interesting to know how many things of research we’ve done on each of the planets, and yet there’s still alot to learn. Theres also so much out there that has to be explored too. who knows where it ends =)

  2. Zorbane
    Zorbane
    October 13, 2009 at 1:56 pm | | Reply

    That was pretty cool

  3. Wobbel
    Wobbel
    October 13, 2009 at 1:58 pm | | Reply

    A both visualy and informatifly pleasing map :D vewy nice

  4. ToddDavis1969
    ToddDavis1969
    October 13, 2009 at 3:29 pm | | Reply

    I got on wolframalpha because I was curious about some conversions – the farthest manmade object right now (Voyager 1) is 10 billion miles away. It has been travelling for 32 some odd years. And it’s still only just over half a “light day” away.

  5. Curtis
    Curtis
    October 13, 2009 at 3:49 pm | | Reply

    On Google Maps they have a map of the moon with info on all of the missions that were there, I’m sure you can find it if you google it (I’m pretty lazy right now)

  6. Morely Dotes
    Morely Dotes
    October 13, 2009 at 4:03 pm | | Reply

    Wow. I’m speechless.

  7. chad attack
    chad attack
    October 13, 2009 at 4:31 pm | | Reply

    This image reminded me of a documentary “Dark Side of the Moon”, about the fake landing on the moon and the theory that Stanley Kubrick helped with the filming to be more believable, just found it on google videos. Pretty insightful and with some nice revelations about the subject. ;)

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2304895215368202642#

    • Scott Johnson
      Scott Johnson
      October 13, 2009 at 8:04 pm | | Reply

      That Doc is awesome, Chad. Saw it a few weeks ago. Inspiring as all get out.

  8. Nakoma
    Nakoma
    October 14, 2009 at 11:01 am | | Reply

    Wow… this map is stunning.

  9. Ceiynt
    Ceiynt
    October 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm | | Reply

    And Voyager 1 is on it’s way to the intersteller worm hole to be propelled to the Delta quadrent some time in a distant past and crash landing into a primitive civilization, creating the borg.

  10. Erich the Mad Bassist
    Erich the Mad Bassist
    October 14, 2009 at 12:35 pm | | Reply

    Great find—thanks! As a fan of the Astronomy Picture of the Day, I really dug this.

    Looking forward to revelations about the Pluto/Charon system in 2015: things get weirder the further we get away from home!

  11. chopsticks
    chopsticks
    October 17, 2009 at 7:30 am | | Reply

    That is awesome! I was going to call it a bluff – like who has the time to map all this out and put it on Flickr? … Then I saw the link on National Geographic http://books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/index