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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 […]
There seems to have been increasing interest in the last decade or more in microsatellites (small satellites with masses in the 10 to 100 kg range), […]
Life is filled with surprises big and small. Between 1994 and its cancellation in 2004, I was involved as a member of the American science team […]
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 […]
There are times when I feel that I have the coolest job in the world. I am currently working on a small project (with the hopes […]
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 […]
A couple of weeks ago the Obama Administration released its proposed budget for FY2015. NASA’s budget (which is almost certainly subject to change by Congress as […]