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50 Years of Space Exploration Map

This is so nice, but I am furious that I didn’t get to design this. This is Information design at it’s best naturally by National Geographic. You can see 50 years of robotic planetary exploration at a glance. It even includes failed missions represented by darker desaturated lines. As far as I can tell the cream colored lines are US and the red ones are Soviet. Interesting to see how many of those lines go dark around Mars.

Now where does one purchase such a thing? Perhaps this month’s issue of NG? Here is the link to it on their site complete with zoom viewer and them some kind samaritan posted a hires version to flickr.

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4 Responses to “50 Years of Space Exploration Map”

  1. Ultra Cool Space Map « IMAX in a Basement Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

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  2. Ormus.info Says:
    October 18th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    50 Jahre Erkundung des Weltalls…

    Diese 50 Jahre sind schon eine lange Zeit und inzwischen sind diverse bemannte und unbemannte Missionen auch schon weit rumgekommen im Weltall. National Geographic hat für den besseren Überblick eine sehr schöne Map Karte parat: (Bild: CC via Fl…

  3. J. Major Says:
    October 18th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

    This is really cool. Not only accurate and scientific but also beautifully designed. If only the real solar system were so nicely illustrated.

  4. Dave Says:
    October 21st, 2009 at 10:13 am

    Perhaps it can be ordered directly from the National Geographic. It’s not current (at least a year old). I remember this was the last entry in their map of the day series.

    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/2008/09/18

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