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Aeryn Avilla
- Feb 20
- 8 min
Sputniks, Muttniks, & Kaputniks: The International Geophysical Year & the Dawn of the Space Age
The solution to thawing the Cold War? The largest international science fair of all time.
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Aeryn Avilla
- Oct 23, 2023
- 5 min
Hot Stuff: NASA's Project FIRE
Flight Investigation of the Reentry Environment was a crucial step in getting men to the moon. Let's learn more about this forgotten project
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Aeryn Avilla
- Oct 11, 2023
- 8 min
From Fights to Fred Flintstone: 10 Fun Facts About Apollo 7
Commemorating the 55th anniversary of the "forgotten" first Apollo mission
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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
- Dec 6, 2021
- 7 min
Kaputnik: The Vanguard TV-3 Failure and the Vanguard Program
On the anniversary of the Vanguard TV-3 disaster, we take a look at ups and down of the entire Vanguard program
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Aeryn Avilla
- Nov 13, 2021
- 8 min
Planetary Run: Mariner Program
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mariner 9
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