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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 12, 2023
- 8 min
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Voskhod 1 and the First Space Crew
How politics, Shakespeare, and the Tokyo Olympics were part of the world's first multi-person spaceflight
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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
- Jun 30, 2023
- 4 min
That Time the CIA Stole a Soviet Lunar Probe
How a clandestine CIA operation help the US take the lead in the Space Race
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Aeryn Avilla
- Mar 13, 2022
- 5 min
Life on Mars: A Brief History of the Martian Canals
How an incorrect translation gave birth to hundreds of science fiction tales.
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