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Back when I was growing up, my father was into model railroading – a hobby as common back then as it is today, possibly even more […]
With the end of 2014 upon us, I figured it was time to look back over this year’s material on Drew Ex Machina and see which […]
Recently I re-read the 1980 revised edition of Robert Powers’ book Planetary Encounters: The Future of Unmanned Spaceflight which I had bought just a couple of […]
In the days before the internet, the primary means of getting information about space exploration was in books and print periodicals. And back in those days […]
Sometimes it is amazing the kind of stuff one can find while stumbling around on the internet. A few years ago I found something that seems […]
I bet a lot of space enthusiasts can recall a single event that sparked their interest in space exploration. I know I certainly can but it […]
Even after over four decades, I still clearly recall my third-grade class field trip to the Boston Museum of Science – my first of many visits […]
The Soviet planetary probe, Mars 1, was the first spacecraft to survive launch to be sent on its way to the Red Planet. Although Mars 1 […]
Back in the 1990s, there was a veritable flood of new information about the once secretive Soviet space program including details of their early failed planetary […]
There seems to have been increasing interest in the last decade or more in microsatellites (small satellites with masses in the 10 to 100 kg range), […]
Life is filled with surprises big and small. Between 1994 and its cancellation in 2004, I was involved as a member of the American science team […]
There are times when I feel that I have the coolest job in the world. I am currently working on a small project (with the hopes […]
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