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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 […]
Often forgotten, even by many space enthusiasts today, are NASA’s Block II Ranger missions launched by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1962. Frequently confused with […]
In recent years, we have grown used to seeing a stream of new pictures taken from the surface of Mars and the Moon from advanced landers […]
Hearing the term “zombie satellite” immediately conjures an image of a poor plot device for some scifi B-movie where dead satellites come to life looking to […]
NASA in general, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in particular, are well known for their string of highly successful robotic missions over the last few […]
Now that we are at the end of 2021, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
In January 1972, President Richard Nixon approved the development of the Space Shuttle as NASA’s next major space initiative after Apollo. I first became aware 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 […]
Recent years have seen a renaissance in lunar exploration with the US and multiple nations around the globe launching and planning missions to our nearest celestial […]
The early years of the Space Age were filled with overly ambitious plans with schedules that proved to be far too optimistic given the state of […]
With so many spacecraft operating in orbit and on the surface of Mars today, providing a record-setting torrent of scientific data from our neighbor, it seems […]
This is truly a golden age for space enthusiasts. Not only is there an ever-expanding number of interesting government-sponsored and commercial space projects underway, but the […]
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