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Recent years have seen a renaissance in lunar exploration with the US and multiple nations around the globe launching and planning missions to our nearest celestial […]
The early years of the Space Age were filled with overly ambitious plans with schedules that proved to be far too optimistic given the state of […]
With so many spacecraft operating in orbit and on the surface of Mars today, providing a record-setting torrent of scientific data from our neighbor, it seems […]
This is truly a golden age for space enthusiasts. Not only is there an ever-expanding number of interesting government-sponsored and commercial space projects underway, but the […]
Without a doubt, the most memorable live event I had witnessed as a teenage space enthusiast was the landing of Viking 1 on the surface of […]
While Explorer 1 and the Explorer-series satellites which followed returned a wealth of new data, they were limited by the tiny 11 kilogram payload capability of […]
Life is filled with firsts and one of the more memorable ones from my youth was my first visit to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on […]
Back in the late 1990s, while I was still teaching classes in astronomy for a local adult and continuing education program, an elderly student of mine […]
June 10, 2021 witnessed the first solar eclipse of this calendar year. With the Moon near its farthest point in its orbit from the Earth or […]
One of the highlights of my professional career as a remote sensing scientist was my participation in the joint US-Russian RAMOS (Russian-American Observation Satellites) program between […]
Probably the most dangerous part of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover all […]
In addition to being a freelance space writer, I am a remote sensing specialist who has been involved in a number of space-related projects funded by […]
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