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While Explorer 1 and the Explorer-series satellites which followed returned a wealth of new data, they were limited by the tiny 11 kilogram payload capability of […]
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 […]
A key component of NASA’s infant space science program was Project Vanguard. Originally developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) as America’s first official satellite program […]
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 […]
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 […]
When I was growing up in the late-1960s and 1970s, I loved color photographs of the Earth taken by the astronauts during NASA’s manned spaceflights. What […]
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. […]
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 […]
