Artist Tehching Hsieh is known for dedicating long and precise periods of time to his fully immersive projects. He spent a year locked in a small cage and thirteen years making art that no one else has seen. For this piece, Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour for a whole year.
Elon musk is sending a car into space.
Vanguard 1 was the 4th satellite launched, after being beaten by Sputnik 1, 2 and Explorer 1, it also suffered from multiple high profile launch failures. However, 60 years on it's still in orbit long after these earlier satellites have fallen back to earth. And the rocket pioneered a design which is more consistent with modern launchers.
