200 Missions in 50 Years

National Geographic has a beautiful new interactive infographic on their site cataloging 50 years of space missions (Both US & others).

The “Fifty Years of Exploration” map, created by Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco for National Geographic, outlines humanity’s journeys into space, starting from the early failed mission to Mars and Venus to the current flight of New Horizons.

You can view the entire graphic full-size here.

Update: Fixed the title… Don’t know how that one got by me.

Map of the Day – National Geographic Magazine. via io9

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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