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Aeryn Avilla
- Sep 5, 2023
- 7 min
New Wings for the Old World: the European Space Agency's Hermes Spaceplane
Hermes was designed to provide Europe with independent crewed access to space. What happened to it?
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Aeryn Avilla
- Jul 12, 2023
- 8 min
Return to Sender: Post-Challenger Cancelled Space Shuttle Missions
More than forty Space Shuttle missions were cancelled after the Challenger disaster in 1986. Let's take a look at some!
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Aeryn Avilla
- May 3, 2023
- 4 min
Skunk Works' X-33 and VentureStar
Let's take a look at the Shuttle's would-be replacement, Lockheed's VentureStar
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Aeryn Avilla
- Feb 27, 2022
- 6 min
Operation Backfire and the British Megaroc
Megaroc was the name of the manned V-2 rocket proposed by the British Interplanetary Society in 1946. How did it work?
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Aeryn Avilla
- Jan 24, 2022
- 8 min
Blue Shuttle: The Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program
The Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program was an attempt to train American military personnel as payload specialists for DOD Shuttle missions.
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