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Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s, the lack of any new NASA missions to Mars during the 1980s […]
For young space enthusiasts like myself growing up in the 1970s, NASA’s Viking mission to Mars was one of the more exciting and memorable. The Viking […]
During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to the television set watching live […]
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 […]
Without a doubt, the most memorable live event I had witnessed as a teenage space enthusiast was the landing of Viking 1 on the surface of […]
Growing up in the 1970s, I watched the progress of every NASA mission to the planets with great enthusiasm. Probably the one mission I waited for […]
During the course of over half a century, we have sent spacecraft to encounter every planet known in the Solar System. Having grown up in the […]
During my teens, I became a voracious reader of books on spaceflight, astronomy and (eventually) science in general. For whatever reason, there are certain stories I […]
For space enthusiasts of a certain age like myself, the 1970s were a golden age of discovery with missions encountering all five planets known to ancient […]
One of the most exciting moments in a landing mission is when the first images from the surface of another world are returned back to Earth. […]
On January 25, 2004, NASA’s MER B (Mars Exploration Rover B) named Opportunity successfully landed at 1.95° S, 354.47° W on Meridiani Planum. After moving out […]
As the Voyager spacecraft continue their missions onwards into interstellar space, it seems hard to believe that it has already been 30 years since the encounter […]
