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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 […]
The launch of the first Falcon Heavy developed and built by aerospace upstart, SpaceX founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk, was accompanied with headlines that […]
Except for the occasional headline of some important achievement, the general public today is largely unaware of how space technology affects them despite the pervasiveness of […]
Now that we are at the end of 2017, I figured it was time to look back once again at this year’s material on Drew Ex […]
The launching of the first two Sputniks was a terrible blow to America’s self-image of technical preeminence that had developed in the years following World War […]
As the year 1967 began, NASA had ambitious plans in place to land astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade. Unfortunately, the loss […]
The launching of Sputnik on the night of October 4, 1957 was virtually a total success (see “Sputnik: The Launch of the Space Age”). The only […]
The world’s unexpected reaction to the launching of Sputnik on October 4, 1957 proved to be of immense propaganda value to the Soviet Union (see “Sputnik: […]
Born just over four years into the Space Age, I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s enthralled with the succession of space missions which ultimately […]
Today it seems that whenever one of NASA’s missions to worlds beyond our own encounters a potentially mission ending problem, teams of talented engineers and scientists […]
Back during the days of the Apollo lunar missions, young budding space enthusiasts like myself were all aware of the trio of unmanned lunar programs which […]
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