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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. […]
Many of us have stories about how we have met famous people in unexpected places and I am no different. Probably one of my more memorable […]
A half a century ago at this time, about three and a half years had already passed since the late President Kennedy had set the goal […]
While I have had a long-time interest in lunar and planetary exploration both as a scientist and a historian, for the past quarter of a century […]
On December 14, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to return data of closeup observations from another world. What is not as widely known […]
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 […]
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 […]
