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The Soviet planetary probe, Mars 1, was the first spacecraft to survive launch to be sent on its way to the Red Planet. Although Mars 1 […]
My latest article, “…Try, try again”, has been published on line in The Space Review. It is a continuation of a series of articles that I […]
Back in the 1990s, there was a veritable flood of new information about the once secretive Soviet space program including details of their early failed planetary […]
Among my earliest memories was sitting in front of the television when I was maybe three or four years old to watch the launch of a […]
Fifty years ago today the Soviet Union launched Zond 1 on a mission to land on Venus. Unfortunately this probe succumbed to a series of malfunctions […]
Now available on line in The Space Review are “If at first you don’t succeed – Part One” and “Part Two” which recount the history of […]
A few years ago as I was going through some old stuff I had recently dug out of storage, I pulled out what turned into an […]
