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Discovered in 1781 by German-born British astronomer, William Herschel, Uranus was the first planet in our Solar System to be discovered since ancient times. In the […]
Probably one of the most dangerous phases of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to […]
I have said it before but it certainly bears repeating: without a doubt, the most prolific planet hunter to date has got to be NASA’s Kepler […]
When thinking about the old Soviet space program, people usually remember its long history of crewed space missions or its somewhat checkered lunar and planetary programs […]
Now that we are at the end of 2015, I figured it was time to look back over this year’s material on Drew Ex Machina and […]
For avid fans of spaceflight, watching the holiday festivities on the International Space Station (ISS) has become a bit of a tradition in recent years. Remarkably, […]
It has turned out that 2015 has been a banner year for the search for potentially habitable planets. It started on January 6 at a meeting […]
Before the discovery of the first extrasolar planets two decades ago, astronomers expected that the architecture of our Solar System was typical – a more or […]
This is the last in a series of articles on the historic Gemini 6 and 7 missions. The story about the original rendezvous and docking mission […]
With the loss of the Agena target vehicle shortly after it was launched on October 25, 1965 and no replacement immediately available, NASA scrapped the original […]
Today, spacecraft rendezvousing in orbit to support crews spending months at a time in space is fairly routine. But a half a century ago, the technology […]
Without a doubt, the most prolific planet hunter has got to be NASA’s Kepler mission. Launched into solar orbit on March 7, 2009, Kepler spent four […]
