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Aeryn Avilla

Aug 23, 202410 min read

Can You Hear Me Major Tom: America's First Communications Satellites

Aeryn Avilla

Feb 20, 20248 min read

Sputniks, Muttniks, & Kaputniks: The International Geophysical Year & the Dawn of the Space Age

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Aug 16, 20236 min read

The Man Who Fell to Earth: Joseph Kittinger & Project Excelsior

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The XSM-64 "Never-Go Navaho" Missile

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Jun 30, 20235 min read

That Time the CIA Stole a Soviet Lunar Probe

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Jun 8, 20223 min read

That Time A Missile was Used to Deliver Mail

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Dec 6, 20217 min read

Kaputnik: The Vanguard TV-3 Failure and the Vanguard Program

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Sep 8, 20215 min read

Project West Ford & Earth's Copper Ring

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Jul 28, 20216 min read

"Come Up And Get Me": Project Manhigh

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Wild Blue Yonder: USAF's Man In Space Soonest

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Jan 31, 20217 min read

Planet of the Apes: US Missions that Sent Primates Into Space

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Jan 3, 20215 min read

Ticket to the Moon: The Nova Rocket

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Nov 3, 20209 min read

Man's Best Friend: The Soviet Missions that Sent Dogs Into Space

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Jul 24, 20207 min read

Bumper 8 - Celebrating 70 Years of Cape Canaveral Rocket Launches

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Jun 15, 20201 min read

That Time There was an Eighth Mercury Astronaut

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Jun 9, 20205 min read

Project Adam: or, How the US Could Have Beat the Soviets in Putting a Man Into Space

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May 5, 202010 min read

Phantom Cosmonauts: The Lost Soviet Spacemen

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