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The primary objective of NASA’s Kepler mission is to detect Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars in Earth-like orbits. While the ongoing analysis of the huge amount […]
Over the years I have discovered that space-related attractions can sometimes be found in the most unexpected places. A few years ago, I wrote an article […]
The launching of spacecraft to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station (ISS) is considered routine today. Without this ability, new crews and vital supplies […]
During the first quarter of a century of the Space Age, Venus had been a target of intense interest to Soviet space planners. Being the closest […]
I still have a clear memory of waiting in anticipation of the premier episode of the now classic sci-fi television show, Lost in Space, which first […]
Today we have a veritable fleet of spacecraft from nations around the globe studying Mars from orbit and its surface. But just over half a century […]
In the years following the end of World War II, the possibility of space travel experienced a great surge of interest in Europe and America. This […]
Back when I was growing up in the heyday of the Apollo program, all young space enthusiasts like myself knew about NASA’s trio of unmanned lunar […]
Back when I was growing up during the first “Golden Age” of planetary exploration, one planetary exploration program stood out among the rest: NASA’s Mariner series […]
In recent years it seems that NASA regularly extends the missions of its long-lived planetary spacecraft sometimes far beyond their original primary missions. The armada of […]
With a V magnitude of -1.46, Sirius is by far the brightest star in our nighttime sky. Located in the constellation of Canis Major (the Greater […]
While interest in miniaturized satellites for a range of applications has been growing in recent years, as a class these satellites are hardly new. By necessity, […]
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