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ULA’s Atlas V is one of the most powerful launch vehicles currently available in the United States and it is certainly among the most reliable rockets […]
When space enthusiasts think of the Gemini 4 mission, they automatically remember the historic first American spacewalk by Edward White. While an important achievement, this feat […]
For the better part of a quarter of a century, Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa has caught the attention of scientists and the lay public alike. Although […]
I still remember the night of December 6, 1972. I was in fifth grade at the time and my parents let me stay up well past […]
Over the past several years, NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered over a thousand confirmed planets with thousands more unconfirmed candidates awaiting follow up observations and even […]
It has been almost two decades since the first extrasolar planets were discovered orbiting Sun-like stars using precision radial velocity measurements. But as more accurate instruments […]
Without a doubt, the most prolific planet hunter to date has got to be NASA’s Kepler mission. Launched into solar orbit on March 7, 2009, Kepler […]
After the initial flurry of lunar mission launches in the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union had amassed a significant list of Moon-related […]
On May 5, 1965, Soviet authorities officially announced that contact with the malfunctioning Zond 2 spacecraft had been lost three months before it reached Mars. Zond […]
For over half a century, controversy has swirled around Barnard’s Star and the possibility it could harbor extrasolar planets. Back when I was growing up in […]
After the launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellites, the US found itself scrambling to get its first satellites into orbit. But in order to repair […]
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. […]
