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The Soviet planetary probe, Mars 1, was the first spacecraft to survive launch to be sent on its way to the Red Planet. Although Mars 1 […]
My latest article, “…Try, try again”, has been published on line in The Space Review. It is a continuation of a series of articles that I […]
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 […]
The announcement of the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting inside the habitable zone of the distant red dwarf star designated Kepler 186 has resulted in […]
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 […]
In the just-published April 2014 issue of Sky & Telescope is an article detailing the results announced at the January American Astronomical Society meeting on some […]
