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When space enthusiasts think of the Gemini 4 mission, they automatically remember the historic first American spacewalk by Edward White. While an important achievement, this feat […]
I still remember the night of December 6, 1972. I was in fifth grade at the time and my parents let me stay up well past […]
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. […]
The development of several new state-of-the-art spacecraft to support crewed operations in Earth orbit and beyond has been in the news much in recent months. As […]
Many of us have stories about how we have met famous people in unexpected places and I am no different. Probably one of my more memorable […]
As regular readers of Drew Ex Machina are probably aware, in addition to being a writer, I am also a physicist specializing in the processing and […]
With the recent Orion EFT-1 test flight and the anticipated test flights of the Boeing and SpaceX craft supporting NASA’s commercial crew transport program, these are […]
As we marvel at the daily operations on the International Space Station (ISS), most do not realize that much of the technology and many of the […]
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 […]
This season is witnessing yet another celebration of Christmas on board the International Space Station (ISS) which has been continuously occupied since November 2000 (see “Christmas […]
Life sometimes presents us with some interesting coincidences and I stumbled upon one in the weeks leading up to the first test flight of NASA’s Orion […]
There has been increasing interest in recent years in using the technology employed in miniaturized Earth-orbiting satellites for lunar and planetary exploration. NASA’s recent call for […]
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