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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 […]
After the initial flurry of lunar mission launches in the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union had amassed a significant list of Moon-related […]
On May 5, 1965, Soviet authorities officially announced that contact with the malfunctioning Zond 2 spacecraft had been lost three months before it reached Mars. Zond […]
After the launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellites, the US found itself scrambling to get its first satellites into orbit. But in order to repair […]
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. […]
At the beginning of the Space Age, a number of new technologies were being examined to support increasingly sophisticated missions then being considered. Among these were […]
For just about anyone under the age of fifty, satellite pictures of Earth’s cloud cover have been a staple of weather reports on television and, more […]
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 […]
Since entering orbit around Mercury four years ago, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has had to use its propulsion system periodically to compensate for the effects of the […]
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 […]
The recent launch of the Atlas V with its Centaur upper stage was just the latest in a long series of such flights stretching back over […]
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