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I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new website, Drew Ex Machina. […]
The past decade or so has seen a marked increase in interest to reach the Moon for exploration as well as the potential exploitation of its […]
Now that we are at the end of 2023, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
With the new push by the United States and other space faring powers to renew the exploration of the Moon, miniaturized spacecraft have been made part […]
With the successful launch of NASA’s Artemis I test flight, we now have a new holder of the title “the largest launch vehicle in service”: the […]
In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new Long March 5B heavy lift launch vehicle, used to orbit […]
Now that we are at the end of 2021, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
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 […]
Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using a growing array of […]
While Explorer 1 and the Explorer-series satellites which followed returned a wealth of new data, they were limited by the tiny 11 kilogram payload capability 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 […]