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While it has been a few months since I have published a new post on the Drew Ex Machina website, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t […]
Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
With the new push by the United States and other space faring powers to renew the exploration of the Moon, miniaturized spacecraft have been made part […]
With the successful launch of NASA’s Artemis I test flight, we now have a new holder of the title “the largest launch vehicle in service”: the […]
In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West about lunar missions which gripped the […]
In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new Long March 5B heavy lift launch vehicle, used to orbit […]
For young space enthusiasts like myself growing up in the 1970s, NASA’s Viking mission to Mars was one of the more exciting and memorable. The Viking […]
Recent years has seen a marked increase in the planetary community’s interest in Venus after decades of near-neglect. Part of this renewed interest is to understand […]
A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe each evening with my new telescope was […]
During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to the television set watching live […]
Undoubtedly, the most memorable part of NASA’s Gemini 4 long-duration mission was the first EVA (extra-vehicular activity), or “spacewalk”, performed by an American astronaut. Launched on […]
Whenever a hurricane threatens the US, the Hurricane Hunter aircraft flown by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the US Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather […]
