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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...
Article “” by Published in Abstract The Magellan mission to Venus, a combined effort of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Martin Marietta, and the Hughes Aircraft Company, was one...
Article “” by Published in Abstract If you are the US government, what do you do with 1,350 surplus Minuteman IA motors (from 450, three-stage solid-fueled missiles)...
Article “” by Published in Abstract As NASA began flying the Space Shuttle and sought approval for a space station in the early 1980s, NASA’s Marshall Space...
Article “” by Published in Abstract There are space enthusiasts, including this author, who still lament the cancellation of the US Air Force’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL)...
Article “” by Published in Abstract The purpose of this article is to summarize the basic requirements and the technology and design issues that dictated the configuration...
Article “” by Published in Abstract This is the second part of the Spin Test Facility story, following on Part I, which appeared in Quest 29:2. On...
Article “” by Published in Abstract This article centers weightlessness as the primary subject in the work of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann Oberth, and Hermann Noordung. After a...
Article “” by Published in Abstract Paul Calle was once of the first eight artists chosen by NASA in 1962 to document the space program and he...
Article “” by Published in Abstract Beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1, humans were attempting feats that had formerly been the purview of science fiction. The...