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Rewind #2 · Monday, October 26, 2026

A ringed planet, two rockets and two shuttles lifting off

The Monday, October 26, 2026 puzzle: five photos from history. Guess the year each was taken, on a timeline from 1940 to 2026.

  1. A pale gold planet with banded clouds and wide rings that cast a dark shadow on the globe, against black space.
  2. A slim cream and black rocket lifting off in a blaze of yellow exhaust against a dark blue sky
  3. A space shuttle rises on a column of fire from huge clouds of white smoke beside a stretch of water, under a dark blue sky.
  4. A white rocket with a bulging cluster of tanks lifting off beside a tall red launch tower and the ocean
  5. A winged orbiter on a huge orange tank and two white boosters thrusts off the pad in billowing smoke and flame.

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  1. Saturn and its rings, seen by Cassini on approach2004

    This was the last view in which Saturn and its rings fit in Cassini's narrow-angle camera's field of view.

    Photo: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · Public domain Source

  2. Jupiter-C launching Explorer 1, America's first satellite1958

    Explorer 1 detected a belt of radiation circling Earth, later named the Van Allen belts after the scientist whose instrument found it.

    Photo: NASA · Public domain Source

  3. Atlantis lifts off on STS-66 to study Earth's atmosphere1994

    On STS-66 the CRISTA-SPAS satellite was released to study the atmosphere, then caught again by the robot arm.

    Photo: NASA · Public domain Source

  4. Saturn I rocket SA-4 lifting off from Cape Canaveral1963

    The rocket's body was nine tanks bundled together: eight 70-inch tanks around a 105-inch center tank.

    Photo: NASA · Public domain Source

  5. The first Space Shuttle thunders off the pad on its maiden flight.1981

    Columbia lifted off exactly 20 years after Yuri Gagarin's flight, the first US spacecraft to carry a crew on its very first launch.

    Photo: NASA · Public domain Source

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