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Rewind #1 · Sunday, October 25, 2026

Flight & Space

The Sunday, October 25, 2026 puzzle: five photos from history. Guess the year each was taken, on a timeline from 1940 to 2026.

  1. A cone-shaped spacecraft floating high above Earth's clouds
  2. Earth rising above the grey horizon of the Moon
  3. A rocket lifting off from a launch pad on a column of fire and smoke
  4. A tiny pale speck in a streak of scattered sunlight against black space
  5. A rover's selfie on a dusty plain, with a small helicopter standing behind it

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  1. Gemini 7, seen from Gemini 6 during the first crewed rendezvous1965

    Gemini 6 and 7 flew in formation for over five hours, at times just a few feet apart, the first time crewed craft met in orbit.

    Photo: NASA · Public domain Source

  2. Earthrise, photographed from Apollo 8 in orbit around the Moon1968

    Bill Anders took it on Christmas Eve, and it is often credited with helping inspire the environmental movement.

    Photo: NASA/Bill Anders · Public domain Source

  3. Voyager 1 launches on a Titan-Centaur rocket from Florida1977

    Voyager 1 is now the most distant human-made object, sailing through interstellar space.

    Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC · Public domain Source

  4. The Pale Blue Dot: Earth seen by Voyager 1 from about 6 billion km away1990

    Carl Sagan persuaded NASA to turn the camera around one last time; Earth fills less than a single pixel.

    Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain Source

  5. Perseverance's selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars2021

    Two weeks later, Ingenuity made the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.

    Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS · Public domain Source