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Now that we are at the end of 2016, I figured it was time to look back over this year’s material on Drew Ex Machina and […]
Without a doubt, 1966 proved to be a banner year for lunar exploration. At the end of the first month of the year, the Soviet Union […]
At the dawn of the Space Age, the various branches of the US military all had their own grandiose plans for dominating space. Although the founding […]
After the Soviet Luna 10 spacecraft became the first to enter orbit around the Moon on April 3, 1966 (see “Luna 10: The First Lunar Satellite”), […]
NASA today enjoys the reputation of being the best in the field of lunar and planetary exploration as a result of decades of highly successful missions. […]
By the summer of 1966 it had already been five years since the late President John F. Kennedy had committed the United States to a manned […]
Every now and then, we have the opportunity to touch a piece of history. One of the more memorable of such moments for me came in […]
As 1966 began, NASA and its contractors were pushing forward with the first test flights of actual Apollo hardware in hopes of launching the first manned […]
As NASA’s Juno spacecraft approaches Jupiter, there has been growing interest among space enthusiasts in the views its camera will return. JunoCam, as it is called, […]
Over the last half a century or so, NASA has managed to land operating payloads on a number of bodies in our solar system. Naturally the […]
During the earliest years of the Space Age, it seemed that the US Army’s Redstone missile was constantly present. On May 5, 1961 a modified Redstone […]
During the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union managed to score a long string of space firsts taking an early lead in the […]
