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Probably the most dangerous part of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover all […]
Since before the beginning of the Space Age, engineers have sought to develop increasingly efficient propulsion systems. Chemical propulsion systems that burn a fuel and oxidizer […]
Now that we are at the end of 2020, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
While launching crews into orbit has become routine with even commercial companies beginning to provide lift services for customers like the US government, it was far […]
On September 17, 2020, the Pan-STARRS1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1) survey at the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii detected a slow moving object […]
When I was growing up in the late-1960s and 1970s, I loved color photographs of the Earth taken by the astronauts during NASA’s manned spaceflights. What […]
As 1960 unfolded, the United States and Soviet Union were racing to develop their own crewed spacecraft to loft the first human into space. One of […]
With test flights of America’s latest generation of crewed spacecraft being followed by space enthusiasts around the globe, it is widely expected that these flights will […]
When I was growing up in the 1970s, I was already an avid space enthusiast who tried to keep abreast of all the latest space missions. […]
During the opening decades of the Space Age, crewed spaceflight was restricted to programs sponsored by the world’s largest governments. In order to spur civilian commercial […]
With the start of the Apollo program in 1960, a wide range of technologies and techniques needed to be developed to mount advanced missions beyond Earth […]
At the same time American agencies like NACA and the USAF were studying manned spaceflight through the 1950s (see “The Origins of NASA’s Mercury Program”), comparable […]
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