The furthest manmade object from Earth. 40 years on, and it's gone over 10 BILLION miles into space, giving us the first up close looks at Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus (and all of their attendant moons).
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On Sept. 15, NASA completed the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission by crashing the probe into Saturn's atmosphere, vaporizing the craft after 14 years of incredible images and scientific discoveries.
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I grew up with the Space Shuttle being a ubiquitous symbol of humanity's need to explore beyond the bounds of our planet. It was always there and it was awesome. I was quite sad when it was retired (although I understood why it needed to be), without a replacement ready to go.