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Aeryn Avilla
- Aug 16, 2023
- 6 min
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Joseph Kittinger & Project Excelsior
The story of Captain Kittinger and the Highest Step in the World.
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Aeryn Avilla
- Aug 15, 2023
- 6 min
The XSM-64 "Never-Go Navaho" Missile
Meet the Navaho missile, the ancestor of the first space launch vehicles
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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
- Sep 6, 2022
- 4 min
Operation Sandy and Sea-Based Rocket Launches
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of when the Navy launched a V-2 from the deck of an aircraft carrier.
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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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Aeryn Avilla
- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
Harvest Moon: The US Army Signal Corps' Project Diana
Long before the Artemis Program there was Project Diana, the first experiment in radio astronomy and the start of American space exploration
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