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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 […]
One of the first things a human instinctively does when seeing something interesting is to take a closer look and touch it. While this may seem […]
For those who follow the world’s space programs, it is well known that things do not always go as planned. A mission can go very wrong […]
As work on the Apollo program continued to accelerate as 1967 began, the process of identifying suitable lunar landing sites was also well underway thanks to […]
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 […]
Without a doubt, 1966 proved to be a banner year for lunar exploration. At the end of the first month of the year, the Soviet Union […]
At times it seems that we have overused various superlative labels to the point where they have lost their meaning. While this trend may seem to […]
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 […]
After the Soviet Luna 10 spacecraft became the first to enter orbit around the Moon on April 3, 1966 (see “Luna 10: The First Lunar Satellite”), […]
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