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Life is filled with firsts and one of the more memorable ones from my youth was my first visit to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on […]
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 […]
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 […]
On September 17, 2020, the Pan-STARRS1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1) survey at the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii detected a slow moving object […]
For space enthusiasts of a certain age like myself, the 1970s were a golden age of discovery with missions encountering all five planets known to ancient […]
While remote sensing techniques are useful in determining the composition of other worlds, the Rosetta Stone for planetary scientists is actual samples which can be subjected […]
One of the most exciting moments in a landing mission is when the first images from the surface of another world are returned back to Earth. […]
On January 25, 2004, NASA’s MER B (Mars Exploration Rover B) named Opportunity successfully landed at 1.95° S, 354.47° W on Meridiani Planum. After moving out […]
When I was growing up in the 1970s, I was already an avid space enthusiast who tried to keep abreast of all the latest space missions. […]
