"Moon Landing", by Randall Munroe, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License
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Ok, so Spirit and Opportunity are pretty awesome. And Kepler. And New Horizons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the surface.