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Article “” by Published in Abstract Messages and signatures have found their way onto a number of spacecraft over the years. This is the story of the...
Article “” by Howard McCurdy and I-Lin Lin Published in Abstract Expressed as the number of fatalities per traveler, spaceflight seems quite dangerous—as risky as climbing Mount...
Article “” by Published in Abstract The Skylab Program was established as a precursor space station with the multiple objectives of proving the worth of a permanent...
Article “” by Published in Abstract The Skylab Program was established as a precursor space station with the multiple objectives of proving the worth of a permanent...
Article “” by Published in Abstract The launch site for the flight of Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin’s mission has, without fanfare, been retired. Citation Harvey, Brian....
Article “” by Published in Abstract Like today, the 1980s and 1990s saw a wave of commercial space activity as firms sought to capture a piece of...
Article “” by Published in Abstract Recently discovered publicity documents from 1961 promote an outdoor exhibition of Lockheed’s missiles and rockets. Citation Powell, Joel W. “Lockheed’s Avenue...
Article “” by Published in Abstract The culture of cosmonautics represents a set of practices, representations, and material objects that imagine or describe space exploration, covering four...
Article “” by Published in Abstract Saunders Kramer was an early space pioneer. As an engineer for Lockheed, he received an early 1960s patent for space station...
Article “” by Published in Abstract The following is an account written by a Soviet journalist and space scientist of the Soviet-American “space experiment,” Soyuz-Apollo, providing a...