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Probably one of the more overlooked Apollo missions was that of Apollo 9 launched on March 3, 1969. Coming just a couple of months after the […]
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 […]
During the last four years of the CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone Intensity Measurements from the ISS) program, our team has acquired image sequences of several dozen powerful […]
Rendezvous and docking of spacecraft followed by the transfer of crews are among the basic skills required for the maintenance of orbiting facilities such as today’s […]
In the opening narrative of the scifi TV classic, Star Trek, the mission statement of the USS Enterprise concluded with “to boldly go where no man […]
Now that we are at the end of 2018, I figured it was time to look back once again at this year’s material published on Drew […]
On October 1, 1958 – days short of the first anniversary of Sputnik – the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially came into being. After […]
Habitable moons have been the spectacular settings for a number of science fiction stories over the decades. For scifi movie enthusiasts of my age, the forest […]
We have all had the experience of when we are looking for something, we sometimes do not find it. But as soon as we stop looking, […]
Mention NASA’s Viking mission to Mars in 1976 and its first-of-its-kind in situ search for life on another planet immediately comes to mind. While astrobiological experiments […]
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