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After the initial flurry of lunar mission launches in the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union had amassed a significant list of Moon-related […]
On May 5, 1965, Soviet authorities officially announced that contact with the malfunctioning Zond 2 spacecraft had been lost three months before it reached Mars. Zond […]
The impact of the first human to fly into space can hardly be appreciated today in this age of a continuous human presence in Earth orbit. […]
At the beginning of the Space Age, a number of new technologies were being examined to support increasingly sophisticated missions then being considered. Among these were […]
For just about anyone under the age of fifty, satellite pictures of Earth’s cloud cover have been a staple of weather reports on television and, more […]
Since entering orbit around Mercury four years ago, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has had to use its propulsion system periodically to compensate for the effects of the […]
With the threat to cut further funding for NASA’s successful and long-running Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission in the news, it seems hard to believe that there […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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