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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
- 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
- Jul 17, 2022
- 8 min
Right Stuff, Wrong Time: The First Lady Astronaut Trainees
Commemorating the lives and legacies of the FLATs, the first women undergo the same physiological tests as the Mercury astronauts
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Aeryn Avilla
- Mar 23, 2022
- 8 min
Red Dawn: The Voskhod Program
Commemorating the 57th anniversary of the first spacewalk with a post about the whole Voskhod Program!
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Aeryn Avilla
- Nov 26, 2021
- 18 min
The Rockets' Red Glare: Interkosmos and the Eastern Bloc
Interkosmos was a Soviet program that flew cosmonauts from other countries into space. Let's learn about its missions!
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