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The launching of the first Sputnik satellites in 1957 and 1958, which had masses as great as 1.3 metric tons, clearly demonstrated that the Soviet Union […]
This season is proving to be a fairly busy one for hurricanes and typhoons in the northern hemisphere. September’s Image of the Month is of Typhoon […]
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as […]
At the dawn of the Space Age, the United State space program looked very different from today’s and was dominated by the Department of Defense. And […]
A few years back I moved my home office/library into much more spacious accommodations in the finished basement of the house I owned at the time. […]
Even after all these years, I still remember May 25, 1973. I was eleven years old at the time and within weeks of finishing fifth grade. […]
During the six months following the launch of the Soviet Union’s second satellite, Sputnik 2 (see “Sputnik 2: The First Animal in Orbit”), public attention was […]
Space enthusiasts fondly remember the Saturn V rocket which sent nine Apollo crews to the Moon including a dozen astronauts who actually landed on the lunar […]
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