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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 […]
Nanosatellites are generally defined as small satellites with masses in the one to ten-kilogram range. With the growing availability of off-the-shelf hardware and standardized nanosatellites like […]
While the history of spaceflight is filled with well-known spacecraft that have flown historic missions, it could be argued that there are a far greater number […]
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 […]
For many people today, it is difficult to conceive of a world without all of the space technology that we now take for granted. One of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The space-related accidents that have been in the news recently are reminders of the inherent dangers of spaceflight. And such losses are certainly more keenly felt […]
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