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During the COVID-19 shutdown three years ago, I spent a lot of my time at home digging through my archives discovering all sorts of items I […]
In January 1972, President Richard Nixon approved the development of the Space Shuttle as NASA’s next major space initiative after Apollo. I first became aware of […]
This is truly a golden age for space enthusiasts. Not only is there an ever-expanding number of interesting government-sponsored and commercial space projects underway, but the […]
Without a doubt, the most memorable live event I had witnessed as a teenage space enthusiast was the landing of Viking 1 on the surface of […]
Life is filled with firsts and one of the more memorable ones from my youth was my first visit to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on […]
Back in the late 1990s, while I was still teaching classes in astronomy for a local adult and continuing education program, an elderly student of mine […]
One of the highlights of my professional career as a remote sensing scientist was my participation in the joint US-Russian RAMOS (Russian-American Observation Satellites) program between […]
In addition to being a freelance space writer, I am a remote sensing specialist who has been involved in a number of space-related projects funded by […]
For almost as long as I have had a serious interest in the Soviet space program, I have enjoyed Soviet space art. In addition to providing […]
During my teens, I became a voracious reader of books on spaceflight, astronomy and (eventually) science in general. For whatever reason, there are certain stories I […]
About twenty years ago while I was still teaching classes in astronomy for a local adult and continuing education program, an elderly student of mine gave […]
For almost as long as I have had a serious interest in the Soviet space program, I have enjoyed Soviet space art. Three decades ago, I […]
