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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 […]
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 […]
While launching crews into orbit has become routine with even commercial companies beginning to provide lift services for customers like the US government, it was far […]
As the year 1962 unfolded, NASA was beginning its series of crewed orbital spaceflights as part of the Mercury program. But with the crewed Gemini and […]
According to the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) which maintains records for aeronautical achievements, the “official” threshold of space is at an altitude of 100 kilometers which […]
As 1960 unfolded, the United States and Soviet Union were racing to develop their own crewed spacecraft to loft the first human into space. One of […]
With test flights of America’s latest generation of crewed spacecraft being followed by space enthusiasts around the globe, it is widely expected that these flights will […]
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. […]
During the opening decades of the Space Age, crewed spaceflight was restricted to programs sponsored by the world’s largest governments. In order to spur civilian commercial […]
With the start of the Apollo program in 1960, a wide range of technologies and techniques needed to be developed to mount advanced missions beyond Earth […]
At the same time American agencies like NACA and the USAF were studying manned spaceflight through the 1950s (see “The Origins of NASA’s Mercury Program”), comparable […]
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