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While today we are inundated with color images of the Earth, our earliest views from space were confined to monochromatic or black and white images (see […]
During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure to work on was the joint US/Russian Federation (RF) […]
Today in the United States we almost take for granted the military’s ability to detect missile launches anywhere on the planet and quickly determine whether it […]
In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West about lunar missions which gripped the […]
Hearing the term “zombie satellite” immediately conjures an image of a poor plot device for some scifi B-movie where dead satellites come to life looking to […]
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 […]
According to the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) which maintains records for aeronautical achievements, the “official” threshold of space is at an altitude of 100 kilometers which […]
Before World War II, the field of rocket technology development was dominated by small groups of enthusiastic visionaries such as the American Rocket Society as well […]
As the Cold War deepened in the 1950s, Americans developed an ever worsening case of paranoia about its primary adversary, the Soviet Union. These fears were […]
Ask the typical space enthusiast to name the first reusable piloted spacecraft and the most likely answer would be NASA’s Space Shuttle. While the Space Shuttle’s […]
On October 1, 1958 – days short of the first anniversary of Sputnik – the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially came into being. After […]
Ask any space enthusiast about “The Moon Race” (especially those of a particular age like myself) and the competition between the United States and the old […]
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