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With the first three crewed Apollo missions successfully meeting their objectives over the course of just five months, by the spring of 1969 it was beginning […]
On October 18, 1967 the sole 1V spacecraft to survive launch for the Soviet “V-67” mission to Venus, called Venera 4, finally reached its target. The […]
Before World War II, the field of rocket technology development was dominated by small groups of enthusiastic visionaries such as the American Rocket Society as well […]
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as […]
By the beginning of 1963 as the crippled Mars 1 was making its way towards the Red Planet, Chief Designer Sergei Korolev and his team at […]
As the Cold War deepened in the 1950s, Americans developed an ever worsening case of paranoia about its primary adversary, the Soviet Union. These fears were […]
As NASA started its first full calendar year of existence on January 1, 1959, groups of engineers and managers were busy starting up the various programs […]
With over 140 crewed missions flown over the last half a century, the Russian Soyuz is the longest-serving and most-flown crewed spacecraft design of the Space […]
I find it difficult to believe but, it was five years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new web site, Drew Ex […]
In the most recent phase of the CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project, our team has been exploring improvements we can make to […]
Probably one of the more overlooked Apollo missions was that of Apollo 9 launched on March 3, 1969. Coming just a couple of months after the […]
Ask the typical space enthusiast to name the first reusable piloted spacecraft and the most likely answer would be NASA’s Space Shuttle. While the Space Shuttle’s […]
