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Artemis Influence on Mars Planning
NASA has several “Design Reference Missions” but they all are rather old, with the last Addendum to the 2009 version released in 2014. There could be...
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Horizons
Soyuz MS-06 delivered Aleksandr Misurkin, Mark Vande Hai and Joseph Acaba to the station in September 2017.
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Ecosystem Deep Dive #1: Investment—The Role of Financial Services
The circular economy requires substantial investments in a range of areas, from supporting start-ups experimenting with new circular business models...
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Soyuz TMA-05M, Expeditions 32 and 33
On 29 September 2011 a second space station joined the ISS in low Earth orbit, albeit on a different trajectory. This was the Chinese Tiangong-1. It...
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The Next Logical Step
The decision with the most lasting impact on the U.S. space program made during the presidency of Ronald Reagan was likely his commitment to...
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Flight Testing for Combat: Military Vehicles
What the X-29 forward-swept-wing project sought to achieve − maneuverability far in excess of contemporary fighter aircraft − the X-31 actually...
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Futura
Soyuz TMA-14M launched on September 25. The port solar array failed to deploy automatically. The impact experienced during docking caused it to “pop...
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Debates and Disagreement
There were many issues to be resolved before the question of whether to move forward with a space station could be ready for presidential decision....
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Before ISS
This introduction is a brief review of the history of Japanese human spaceflight prior to the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Count Draghila
This chapter examines the European crisis from the point of view of monetary policy. Based on the monetary issues discussed in the previous chapters,...
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New rockets, launch sites and ships
The building of the space station and lunar program was possible only because a vast infrastructure of rockets, launch sites, tracking stations,...
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A Summary of the US Space Program and Its Relationship to the Military
In order to appreciate the full story of the current and future uses of outer space, it is necessary to reflect on the history of space exploration...
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A Bright Light in Virginia
I consider myself fortunate to have book-ended my career as an experimental physicist by working on a great tool of science—the laser. This device,...
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Building a Gigantic Machine
The ITER tokamakTokamak will be a perfectly formed jewel of technology. Probably the most complex (and most expansive) machine ever built by...
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War: Ultimate Disruptor (1937-1945)
On August 1st, 1936, 22-year-old James Cleveland Owens strode into the Olympic Stadium as a member of the amateur athletics team representing the...
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Russia and the Rest
The Soviet Union was once the most powerful nation in space, but taking on its role at the end of the Cold War, Russia has fallen behind the United...
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Childhood and Other Mysteries (1889-1909)
On a crisp fall morning, November 14, 1899, as steam hissed from under the massive iron horse at the front of the train waiting to transport him and...
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Per Aspera Ad Astra (1910–1917)
Sitting at his desk in Queen’s College at Oxford in England, Edwin Hubble studied with grave intensity the telegram in his hand. It was from his...
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All change in the Astronaut Office
During the two weeks after their names were announced to the world, life became a bit of a whirlwind for the 35 individuals publicly identified as...
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NASA’s All-Electric Flying Machine
“It was really a special time for us, because this class had a real mixture for the first time,” recalled Mike Coats. “Most of the previous classes...