Six Wheels Touch Down on Mars
On January 4, 2004, NASA's Spirit rover bounced to a landing inside Mars' Gusev Crater, starting a 90-day mission that would stretch into more than six years of exploration.
Tales from the year 2004
The Week a 19-Year-Old Rewired Friendship
On February 4, 2004, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook from his dorm room — and more than a thousand students signed up within 24 hours.
The Day a Private Spaceship Reached Space
On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne became the first privately built and funded spacecraft to carry a person into space.