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Aeryn Avilla
- Feb 24
- 10 min
All of You on the Good Earth: 10 Fun Facts About Apollo 8
A little late, but commemorating the 55th anniversary of the first manned flight to the moon!
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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
- 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
- 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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Aeryn Avilla
- Oct 28, 2021
- 6 min
One Giant Leap: Philip Bono's ROMBUS
Philip Bono was a brilliant engineer who lived decades before his time. Let's look at his most notable proposal, ROMBUS.
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Aeryn Avilla
- Jun 9, 2021
- 4 min
Moonwalker: The Soviet Lunokhod Program
Meet Lunokhod, the world's first remote-controlled space rover
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