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"https://www.drewexmachina.com/2021/02/24/when-the-nuclear-age-met-the-space-age-the-beginnings-of-nuclear-rocket-propulsion-development/", "published_at": "2021-02-24T08:05:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-84c7-7383-abe8-33f6a98d3679", "title": "Vanguard 2: NASA’s First Successful Satellite Launch", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2021/02/17/vanguard-2-nasas-first-successful-satellite-launch/", "published_at": "2021-02-17T15:04:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-84c7-7383-abe8-33f6aa0a13e4", "title": "Top Ten Posts of 2020", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/12/31/top-ten-posts-of-2020/", "published_at": "2020-12-31T17:14:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-84c7-7383-abe8-33f6aa4d62a8", "title": "Venera 7: The First Landing on Another Planet", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/12/15/venera-7-the-first-landing-on-another-planet/", "published_at": "2020-12-15T14:40:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-84c7-7383-abe8-33f6ab2e9507", "title": "The First Planetary Probe Encounter of the Earth – NASA’s Galileo on December 8, 1990", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/12/08/the-first-planetary-probe-encounter-of-the-earth-nasas-galileo-on-december-8-1990/", "published_at": "2020-12-08T08:32:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-84c7-7383-abe8-33f6abc071f7", "title": "First Pictures: Mariner 9 Closeup View of Phobos – November 29, 1971", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/11/29/first-pictures-mariner-9-closeup-view-of-phobos-november-29-1971/", "published_at": "2020-11-29T15:01:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-84c7-7383-abe8-33f6ac3d0848", "title": "The Infamous Launch Abort of NASA’s Mercury-Redstone 1", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/11/21/the-infamous-launch-abort-of-nasas-mercury-redstone-1/", "published_at": "2020-11-21T23:23:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6c98bda22", "title": "Has the Centaur that Launched NASA’s Surveyor 2 to the Moon Returned Home?", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/10/27/has-the-centaur-that-launched-nasas-surveyor-2-to-the-moon-returned-home/", "published_at": "2020-10-27T14:04:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6ca08cc9e", "title": "First Pictures: Atlas 71D Color Photos of Earth from Space – October 13, 1960", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/10/13/first-pictures-atlas-71d-color-photos-of-earth-from-space-october-13-1960/", "published_at": "2020-10-13T13:12:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6ca64fe28", "title": "The Best Images of Mars – 1909", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/10/08/the-best-images-of-mars-1909/", "published_at": "2020-10-08T13:04:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6cadfa5a8", "title": "Space Art: The Space Fantasy of Andrei Sokolov", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/09/24/soviet-space-art-the-space-fantasy-of-andrei-sokolov/", "published_at": "2020-09-24T12:39:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6cb890da0", "title": "First Pictures: Voyager 1 Portrait of the Earth & Moon – September 18, 1977", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/09/18/first-pictures-voyager-1-portrait-of-the-earth-moon-september-18-1977/", "published_at": "2020-09-18T13:12:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6cb8a9a8a", "title": "NASA Selects the “New Nine” – September 17, 1962", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/09/17/history-brief-nasa-selects-the-new-nine-september-17-1962/", "published_at": "2020-09-17T11:40:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6cb99a34e", "title": "Luna 16: The First Robotic Sample Return", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/09/12/luna-16-the-first-robotic-sample-return/", "published_at": "2020-09-12T14:08:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6cc97454f", "title": "First Pictures: Viking 2 on Mars – September 3, 1976", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/09/03/first-pictures-viking-2-on-mars-september-3-1976/", "published_at": "2020-09-03T13:08:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6cd0d9ec7", "title": "Alien Skies: The View from Alpha Centauri", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/08/28/alien-skies-the-view-from-alpha-centauri/", "published_at": "2020-08-28T13:41:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-4d58-71af-8ff5-93f6cdc5c1d9", "title": "The First Reusable Spacecraft: The X-15 Flights Above the Karman Line", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/08/22/the-first-reusable-spacecraft-the-x-15-flights-above-the-karman-line/", "published_at": "2020-08-22T14:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f0b6ebd9", "title": "Korabl-Sputnik 2: The First Animals Recovered from Orbit", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/08/19/korabl-sputnik-2-the-first-animals-recovered-from-orbit/", "published_at": "2020-08-19T22:41:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f14d7312", "title": "Meridiani Planum in 1969 – Our First Closeup View of Opportunity’s 2004 Landing Site", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/08/08/meridiani-planum-in-1969-our-first-closeup-view-of-opportunitys-landing-site/", "published_at": "2020-08-08T14:24:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f1ef9930", "title": "The Disappointing Flight of NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 1", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/07/29/the-disappointing-flight-of-nasas-mercury-atlas-1/", "published_at": "2020-07-29T22:37:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f2899519", "title": "The Soviet Space Exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science – July 1990", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/07/09/the-soviet-space-exhibit-at-the-boston-museum-of-science-july-1990/", "published_at": "2020-07-09T12:46:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f28f517e", "title": "The Spaceflights of SpaceShipOne", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/06/21/the-spaceflights-of-spaceshipone/", "published_at": "2020-06-21T13:55:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f2ad4bfa", "title": "Habitable Planet Reality Check: Kepler 1649c & The Implications for Earth-Size Exoplanets in Red Dwarf Habitable Zones", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/06/10/habitable-planet-reality-check-kepler-1649c-the-implications-for-earth-size-exoplanets-in-red-dwarf-habitable-zones/", "published_at": "2020-06-10T14:24:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f2b28463", "title": "Soviet Space Art: Star Way of Humanity", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/05/29/soviet-space-art-star-way-of-humanity/", "published_at": "2020-05-29T12:37:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f36ee487", "title": "Project FIRE: Testing Apollo’s Reentry", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/05/22/project-fire-testing-apollos-reentry/", "published_at": "2020-05-22T13:30:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f3776c20", "title": "Korabl-Sputnik & The Origin of the Soviet Vostok Program", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/05/15/korabl-sputnik-the-origin-of-the-soviet-vostok-program/", "published_at": "2020-05-15T14:33:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-b8fd-7257-aa48-2ce4f3c85cfc", "title": "The Original Mission of Apollo 13", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/04/21/the-original-mission-of-apollo-13/", "published_at": "2020-04-21T05:06:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-12f8-7123-b2a6-27f02f2089cc", "title": "Zond 1: The First Lander Sent to Venus", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/04/02/zond-1-the-first-lander-sent-to-venus/", "published_at": "2020-04-02T06:19:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-12f8-7123-b2a6-27f02fa7b21c", "title": "Gemini 7: Two Weeks in the Front Seat of a Volkswagen", "url": "https://www.drewexmachina.com/2020/03/26/gemini-7-two-weeks-in-the-front-seat-of-a-volkswagen/", "published_at": "2020-03-26T06:21:49+00:00" }, { "id": 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2026

First Pictures: Earthrise from NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 – August 23, 1966original ↗
23 Aug 2026
Critical Forecasts from Space: “Tech & Space Leaders Show” with Lisa Dreheroriginal ↗
8 Aug 2026
The Massachusetts Bolide: Witnessing a Once in a Generation Eventoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026

2025

As Government Cuts Weather Forecasting, Private Weather is Poised to Take the Leadoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2025
The Soviet Zond 3 Lunar Flyby: Revealing the Rest of the Far Sideoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2025
The Hurricane Hunter Satellites: A Weather Nanosatellite Constellationoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2025

2024

Top Ten Posts of 2024original ↗
31 Dec 2024
Apollo A-002: Testing the Limits of the Launch Escape Systemoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2024
You Can’t Fail Unless You Try: NASA’s Pioneer P-3 Lunar Orbiteroriginal ↗
26 Nov 2024
First Pictures: Color View of the Earth & A Tropical Depression from Space – October 5, 1954original ↗
5 Oct 2024
First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959original ↗
14 Aug 2024
An ISS Success Story: CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone Intensity Measurements from the ISS) to the Hurricane Hunter Satellitesoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2024
Epsilon Indi’s Super Jovian Exoplanet – Background & New Observations by JWSToriginal ↗
28 Jul 2024
Recollections of NASA’s Apollo 11 Missionoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2024
Drew Ex Machina 10th Anniversary: Top Ten Postsoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2024
Accurate Characterization of 3D Winds Using Stereographic Observations from the Hurricane Hunter Satellitesoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2024
The Dream: The First Probe to the Moonoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

Top Ten Posts of 2023original ↗
31 Dec 2023
First Pictures: Earthrise from Apollo 8 – December 24, 1968original ↗
24 Dec 2023
NASA’s Explorer 18: The First Interplanetary Monitoring Platformoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2023
Tropical Weather Analytics and Phantom Space Partner on Hurricane Hunter Satellite Constellationoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2023
GOES Video of Solar Eclipse – October 14, 2023original ↗
14 Oct 2023
Memories of Project RAMOS (Russian American Observation Satellites) 1991 – 2004original ↗
29 Sept 2023
Star Way of Humanity: American Space Artoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2023
First Pictures: Views of Mars from NASA’s Mars Observer – July 27, 1993original ↗
27 Jul 2023
The Promise of MIDAS: The First Experimental Early Warning Satellitesoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2023
Catching Up: Talking about the Weatheroriginal ↗
5 Jun 2023
Failure to Launch: The First Moon Race 1958-60original ↗
2 Jun 2023
Habitable Planet Reality Check: TOI-700e Discovered by NASA’s TESS Missionoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2023

2022

Top Ten Posts of 2022original ↗
31 Dec 2022
Pioneer 3: JPL’s First Moonshot Attemptoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2022
The Largest Launch Vehicles in Service – 1957 to the Presentoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2022
USAF Project Able-1: The First Attempt to Reach the Moonoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2022
Rockets Falling from Orbit: The Saturn V That Launched NASA’s Skylaboriginal ↗
31 Jul 2022
NASA’s Viking Mission & The Search for Life on Mars: The Experimentsoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2022
Venera 8: The First Characterization of the Surface of Venusoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2022
Webb’s First Glimpse of Jupiter, Its Moons & Ringsoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2022
First Pictures: NASA’s Mars Pathfinder – July 4, 1997original ↗
4 Jul 2022
Ed White’s EVA Photos from NASA’s Gemini 4 Missionoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2022
The Hurricane Hunter Satellitesoriginal ↗
15 May 2022
First Pictures: A View of Earth from the Surface of Another World – April 30, 1967original ↗
30 Apr 2022
Ranger 4: NASA’s First (Unintentional) Impact on the Moonoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2022
First Pictures: Color Views of the Surface of Venus by Venera 13 – March 1, 1982original ↗
1 Mar 2022
Zombie Satellites: The Tale of Lincoln Experimental Satellite 1original ↗
11 Feb 2022
NASA’s Ranger 3: The First Attempt to Land on the Moonoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2022

2021

Top Ten Posts of 2021original ↗
31 Dec 2021
An EPIC Glimpse of the December 4, 2021 Solar Eclipseoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2021
The Dream of NASA’s Space Shuttle: Artwork of the ‘70soriginal ↗
31 Oct 2021
First Pictures: The View of Earth from Space – October 24, 1946original ↗
24 Oct 2021
Ranger: NASA’s First Successful Moon Program… Eventuallyoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2021
The Future That Never Came: The Mariner A Mission to Venusoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2021
The Mysterious Mission of Zond 2 to Marsoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2021
NASA’s Apollo 15 Mission: A Kid’s View from 1971original ↗
29 Jul 2021
First Pictures: Viking 1 on Mars – July 20, 1976original ↗
20 Jul 2021
The Spectacular Launch Failure of Explorer S-1 – July 16, 1959original ↗
16 Jul 2021
A Tour of Kennedy Space Center – July 1981original ↗
11 Jul 2021
A Century of Progress: Telescopic Views of the Triangulum Galaxyoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2021
EPIC View of the June 10, 2021 Solar Eclipseoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2021
A Glimpse of the Russian M-55 Geophysica High-Altitude Aircraft – May 1999original ↗
31 May 2021
A Successful Failure: The Flight of Apollo Little Joe II A-003original ↗
19 May 2021
Images of Our Home World for Earth Dayoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2021
Soviet Space Art: Soviet Space Program by Andrei Sokolovoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2021
First Pictures: Voyager 1 Images Io’s Volcanic Plumes – March 8, 1979original ↗
8 Mar 2021
When the Nuclear Age Met the Space Age: The Beginnings of Nuclear Rocket Propulsion Developmentoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2021
Vanguard 2: NASA’s First Successful Satellite Launchoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2021

2020

Top Ten Posts of 2020original ↗
31 Dec 2020
Venera 7: The First Landing on Another Planetoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2020
The First Planetary Probe Encounter of the Earth – NASA’s Galileo on December 8, 1990original ↗
8 Dec 2020
First Pictures: Mariner 9 Closeup View of Phobos – November 29, 1971original ↗
29 Nov 2020
The Infamous Launch Abort of NASA’s Mercury-Redstone 1original ↗
21 Nov 2020
Has the Centaur that Launched NASA’s Surveyor 2 to the Moon Returned Home?original ↗
27 Oct 2020
First Pictures: Atlas 71D Color Photos of Earth from Space – October 13, 1960original ↗
13 Oct 2020
The Best Images of Mars – 1909original ↗
8 Oct 2020
Space Art: The Space Fantasy of Andrei Sokolovoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2020
First Pictures: Voyager 1 Portrait of the Earth & Moon – September 18, 1977original ↗
18 Sept 2020
NASA Selects the “New Nine” – September 17, 1962original ↗
17 Sept 2020
Luna 16: The First Robotic Sample Returnoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2020
First Pictures: Viking 2 on Mars – September 3, 1976original ↗
3 Sept 2020
Alien Skies: The View from Alpha Centaurioriginal ↗
28 Aug 2020
The First Reusable Spacecraft: The X-15 Flights Above the Karman Lineoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2020
Korabl-Sputnik 2: The First Animals Recovered from Orbitoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2020
Meridiani Planum in 1969 – Our First Closeup View of Opportunity’s 2004 Landing Siteoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2020
The Disappointing Flight of NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 1original ↗
29 Jul 2020
The Soviet Space Exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science – July 1990original ↗
9 Jul 2020
The Spaceflights of SpaceShipOneoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2020
Habitable Planet Reality Check: Kepler 1649c & The Implications for Earth-Size Exoplanets in Red Dwarf Habitable Zonesoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2020
Soviet Space Art: Star Way of Humanityoriginal ↗
29 May 2020
Project FIRE: Testing Apollo’s Reentryoriginal ↗
22 May 2020
Korabl-Sputnik & The Origin of the Soviet Vostok Programoriginal ↗
15 May 2020
The Original Mission of Apollo 13original ↗
21 Apr 2020
Zond 1: The First Lander Sent to Venusoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2020
Gemini 7: Two Weeks in the Front Seat of a Volkswagenoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2020
Habitable Planet Reality Check: The Student-Discovered KIC-7340288boriginal ↗
18 Mar 2020
Habitable Planet Reality Check: TOI-700d Discovered by NASA’s TESS Missionoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2020
A Brief History of Planetary Orbit Insertion Failuresoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2020

2019

Top Ten Posts of 2019original ↗
31 Dec 2019
The Birth of NASA’s Saturn C-1 Rocketoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2019
Top Ten Images from NASA’s Tropical Cyclone Experiment on the ISSoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2019
The Apollo 12 Visit to Surveyor 3: A Preview of Space Archaeologyoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2019
The Real Wolf 359 Revisited – New Planetary Discoveriesoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2019
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