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The team at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA), where this author is the Chief Scientist, had the honor of having our poster about our previous work on […]
Like a lot of kids who grew up during the ‘60s and ‘70s, I had a fascination with spaceflight. This interest started honestly enough back around […]
Now that we are at the end of 2023, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by the assassination of prominent public figures, violent protests […]
Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new Long March 5B heavy lift launch vehicle, used to orbit […]
Undoubtedly, the most memorable part of NASA’s Gemini 4 long-duration mission was the first EVA (extra-vehicular activity), or “spacewalk”, performed by an American astronaut. Launched on […]
Now that we are at the end of 2021, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
In January 1972, President Richard Nixon approved the development of the Space Shuttle as NASA’s next major space initiative after Apollo. I first became aware of […]
This is truly a golden age for space enthusiasts. Not only is there an ever-expanding number of interesting government-sponsored and commercial space projects underway, but the […]
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 […]
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 […]
