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With possibly millions of people in the US looking skyward on August 21, 2017 at the total eclipse of the Sun, a number of satellites caught […]
I doubt that there are many space enthusiasts or even scientists out there who remember the first time they ever heard mention of the name Tau […]
A half of a century after the fact, it is difficult to imagine the excitement during 1967 as NASA continued to work through its backlog of […]
Back during the days of the Apollo lunar missions, young budding space enthusiasts like myself were all aware of the trio of unmanned lunar programs which […]
While the tragic fire which killed the crew of Apollo 1 on January 27, 1967 effectively put the brakes on the Apollo program (see “The Future […]
On August 24, 2016 an international team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé (Queen Mary University of London) announced the discovery of Proxima Centauri b – […]
On June 19, 2017, NASA held a press conference at Ames Research Center located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. At this event, Mario Perez […]
In recent years it seems that Mars has dominated NASA’s planetary exploration program while proposals to study our twin-planet-gone-bad, Venus, are being repeatedly rejected. Something similar […]
While the flood of exoplanetary discoveries from NASA’s Kepler program has dominated headlines in recent years, there are a host of lesser known programs which have […]
As 1967 began, NASA had ambitious plans for the year in their push to get Apollo to the Moon. But while the tragic loss of the […]
During my first business trip to Moscow in 1996 for the RAMOS program (see “RAMOS: The Russian-American Observation Satellites”), many of my colleagues and I made […]
The year 2017 has certainly been turning out to be a busy one for the discovery of extrasolar planets orbiting nearby stars. This should not be […]
