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Launch is one of the more dangerous phases of any crewed space mission. Sitting on top of a high-performance rocket filled with hundreds of metric tons […]
This is the second part of a series on the First Race to the Moon. The first part, covering events up to November 1958, is “The […]
As 1959 opened, the newly created NASA appeared to be well on its way with Project Mercury. In January 1959 the Space Task Group (STG) based […]
Launched on March 7, 2009, the objective of NASA’s Kepler mission was to observe the brightness of 150,000 stars in a 115 square degree patch of […]
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as […]
As the Voyager spacecraft continue their missions onwards into interstellar space, it seems hard to believe that it has already been 30 years since the encounter […]
The year 2019 is proving to be a fruitful one for the discovery of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars especially our smallest neighbors, red dwarfs. On August […]
The Apollo 11 mission of July 1969 is without a doubt the earliest historical event that I can clearly recall and appreciate. At the age of […]
Whenever the hot weather finally arrives in New England, some of my thoughts during idle moments turn towards memories of summer vacations from school when I […]
As the historic Apollo 11 mission was heading to the Moon, a bit of space drama was unfolding before the eyes of the world. Just three […]
