drew@drewexmachina.com
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s, the lack of any new NASA missions to Mars during the 1980s […]
Both space enthusiasts and the general public alike are frequently enthralled by pictures of our home planet taken from space. Among the more impactful images of […]
Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using a growing array of […]
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 […]
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 […]
A key component of NASA’s infant space science program was Project Vanguard. Originally developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) as America’s first official satellite program […]
During the course of over half a century, we have sent spacecraft to encounter every planet known in the Solar System. Having grown up in the […]
When I was growing up in the late-1960s and 1970s, I loved color photographs of the Earth taken by the astronauts during NASA’s manned spaceflights. What […]
On January 25, 2004, NASA’s MER B (Mars Exploration Rover B) named Opportunity successfully landed at 1.95° S, 354.47° W on Meridiani Planum. After moving out […]
Back when I was a pre-teen space enthusiast, I wasn’t much of a reader, but I loved pictures taken from space. Whenever I got hold of […]
The largest of Saturn’s diverse family of moons, Titan is also arguably one of the more interesting worlds in our Solar System with a thick haze-filled […]
The impact of the first human to fly into space can hardly be appreciated today in this age of a continuous human presence in Earth orbit. […]
