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For almost as long as I have had a serious interest in the Soviet space program, I have been enjoying Soviet space art. In addition to […]
With the start of the Apollo program in 1960, a wide range of technologies and techniques needed to be developed to mount advanced missions beyond Earth […]
At the same time American agencies like NACA and the USAF were studying manned spaceflight through the 1950s (see “The Origins of NASA’s Mercury Program”), comparable […]
With the celebration of the anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, there have been many stories published about the efforts to return the crew back home […]
During the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union took an early lead with an impressive series of space firsts: the first satellite, the […]
With the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) routinely spending six or more months in orbit, it is sometimes forgotten that only a few decades […]
While NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was shutdown well over a year ago, there are still teams of scientists around the globe combing through its huge, nine-year database […]
Launched on April 18, 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been systematically surveying about 200,000 of the brightest stars over most of the sky […]
One of the most crucial phases of many interplanetary missions is orbit insertion. Everything must go right the first time, or the spacecraft fails to enter […]
Now that we are at the end of 2019, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
The beginning of the Space Age was ushered in by a series of Soviet space spectaculars which clearly demonstrated that the Soviet Union had an immense […]
For the past five years, NASA’s Tropical Cyclone Experiment was performed in support of the CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project funded by […]
