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After years of effort, NASA has finally chosen a pair of contractors to build replacements for the now-retired Space Shuttle to send Americans into Earth orbit […]
The Titan III and its successor, the Titan IV, served the heavy-lift launch requirements of not only the Department of Defense but also for NASA especially […]
Among the small fleet of interplanetary spacecraft scattered around the Solar System is NASA’s Dawn mission to the largest asteroids Vesta and Ceres. What makes this […]
It can be argued that one of the key advances in making miniature satellite technology more readily available to a wider range of potential users has […]
It is quite common to associate rockets with cutting edge technology. But oddly enough until the last decade or so, the rocket engines used by most […]
At the same time the first Apollo launch abort test flight with the Little Joe II was taking place (see The First Apollo-Little Joe II Launch), […]
Today we almost take for granted one of the key technologies that makes spaceflight possible: the liquid propellant rocket engine. Exactly a century ago today, famed […]
It is often forgotten how much many of the new crewed space capsules currently under development in the US owe to the work done as part […]
Among my earliest memories was sitting in front of the television when I was maybe three or four years old to watch the launch of a […]
A few years ago as I was going through some old stuff I had recently dug out of storage, I pulled out what turned into an […]
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