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During my first business trip to Moscow in 1996 for the RAMOS program (see “RAMOS: The Russian-American Observation Satellites”), many of my colleagues and I made […]
The tragic Apollo 1 fire of January 27, 1967 which killed NASA astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee was a defining moment in the […]
Now that we are at the end of 2016, I figured it was time to look back over this year’s material on Drew Ex Machina and […]
As 1966 was nearing an end, preparations for the first manned Apollo mission planned for February 1967 were moving swiftly ahead. Almost lost in the flurry […]
At the dawn of the Space Age, the various branches of the US military all had their own grandiose plans for dominating space. Although the founding […]
As the year 1966 progressed, NASA was pushing hard to keep to its schedule so that Apollo could land on the Moon before the end of […]
While space enthusiasts tend to focus their attention on spacecraft and the rockets used to launch them, there is a lot more that is needed to […]
The year 1966 was a pivotal one in the race to reach the Moon. Testing of the Apollo spacecraft in preparation for the first manned flight […]
By the summer of 1966 it had already been five years since the late President John F. Kennedy had committed the United States to a manned […]
The year 1966 was a busy one for the US space program and its push to reach the Moon by the end of the decade. With […]
As 1966 began, NASA and its contractors were pushing forward with the first test flights of actual Apollo hardware in hopes of launching the first manned […]
In this age with a permanent human presence in orbit currently provided by the International Space Station (ISS), it seems hard to recall a time when […]
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