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Our Visit to Peenemünde
The location of Pennemunde on the Baltic near Poland. On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, Monique Laney and I had the opportunity to visit the museum at Peenemünde, on the island of Usedom on the Baltic Sea in...
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Remembering Wernher von Braun on his 100th Birthday: Blog Repost
I published a blog post on the National Air and Space Museum this morning on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wernher von Braun. For anyone who might be interested in reading that post it is...
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A Chronology of Key Space Anniversaries for 2014
The Space Shuttle coming at you. There are many anniversaries every year, some truly significant and others of a more mundane nature. What follows is a short chronology of anniversaries taking place in...
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Homer Newell and the Early Post-War Space Science Program
Homer Newell Homer E. Newell (1915-1983) is one of the NASA leaders I am profiling in a book I have underway. His career was remarkable. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of...
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A Brief Account of the Origins of Rocketry in Less than 1,000 Words
Although it is unclear who first invented rockets, many investigators link the first crude rockets with the discovery of gunpowder. The Chinese, moreover, had been using gunpowder for some 1,800 years....
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Chronology of Key Space Anniversaries for 2015
1945—70 Years Ago 4 July—The NACA’s Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (PARD) launched from Wallops Island, Maryland, its first test vehicle, a small two-stage, solid-fuel rocket to check out the...
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Five Legacies of Space Access Since the 1950s
A Delta II launch. While a large number of issues could be explored in the now more than fifty years of space access, here are five central legacies, number three will blow your mind. (Sorry, I...
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