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June 10, 2021 witnessed the first solar eclipse of this calendar year. With the Moon near its farthest point in its orbit from the Earth or […]
One of the highlights of my professional career as a remote sensing scientist was my participation in the joint US-Russian RAMOS (Russian-American Observation Satellites) program between […]
Probably the most dangerous part of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover all […]
In addition to being a freelance space writer, I am a remote sensing specialist who has been involved in a number of space-related projects funded by […]
For almost as long as I have had a serious interest in the Soviet space program, I have enjoyed Soviet space art. In addition to providing […]
Growing up in the 1970s, I watched the progress of every NASA mission to the planets with great enthusiasm. Probably the one mission I waited for […]
Since before the beginning of the Space Age, engineers have sought to develop increasingly efficient propulsion systems. Chemical propulsion systems that burn a fuel and oxidizer […]
A key component of NASA’s infant space science program was Project Vanguard. Originally developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) as America’s first official satellite program […]
Now that we are at the end of 2020, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
During the summer of 1990, I got a chance to check out a large exhibit of Soviet space hardware at the Boston Museum of Science (see […]
During the course of over half a century, we have sent spacecraft to encounter every planet known in the Solar System. Having grown up in the […]
During my teens, I became a voracious reader of books on spaceflight, astronomy and (eventually) science in general. For whatever reason, there are certain stories I […]
