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Ask any serious space enthusiast about the exploration of Venus and the Soviet Venera missions immediately come to mind. During the 1970s and first half of […]
For long time space enthusiasts like myself, the test flights of the Orion and other new crewed spacecraft in recent years is reminiscent of the first […]
For most of human history, the planets were distant bodies that could only be studied from afar and visited only in our imaginations. But with the […]
During the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union managed to beat the United States to one Moon-related first after another: The first lunar […]
Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in missions to the Moon. In addition to the United States and Russia, who dominated the exploration of the Moon […]
Discovered in 1781 by German-born British astronomer, William Herschel, Uranus was the first planet in our Solar System to be discovered since ancient times. In the […]
Probably one of the most dangerous phases of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to […]
I have said it before but it certainly bears repeating: without a doubt, the most prolific planet hunter to date has got to be NASA’s Kepler […]
When thinking about the old Soviet space program, people usually remember its long history of crewed space missions or its somewhat checkered lunar and planetary programs […]
Now that we are at the end of 2015, I figured it was time to look back over this year’s material on Drew Ex Machina and […]
For avid fans of spaceflight, watching the holiday festivities on the International Space Station (ISS) has become a bit of a tradition in recent years. Remarkably, […]
It has turned out that 2015 has been a banner year for the search for potentially habitable planets. It started on January 6 at a meeting […]
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