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In October 2016 Europe's Schiaparelli probe had nearly landed on Mars — surviving entry, parachute, and radar — when a sensor was overwhelmed for...
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In October 2016 Europe's Schiaparelli probe had nearly landed on Mars — surviving entry, parachute, and radar — when a sensor was overwhelmed for...
On November 27, 1971, the Soviet Mars 2 became the first human-made object ever to reach the surface of Mars. It got there the...
China continues to defy expectations with its massive military buildup. As the Americans tut-tut about whatever overpriced and underperforming manned system, like the F-47...
During what was supposed to be his final flight aboard the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, former Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) Richard “Butch” Sheffield experienced the...
In the 1950s, American engineers set out to build the ultimate weapon: a nuclear-powered cruise missile that could fly almost indefinitely, cross oceans, and...
The Space Shuttle is remembered as an engineering marvel, but this analysis argues it was also one of NASA's costliest strategic mistakes. Sold as...
In 1974 the CIA pulled off one of the most audacious operations of the Cold War. Using billionaire Howard Hughes and a cover story...
On paper, the Navy's Wasp-class ships are amphibious assault ships, built to land Marines, helicopters, and vehicles on a hostile shore. But load one...
"Venus is a Russian planet." That is what the head of Russia's space agency declared in 2020, and the West largely laughed it off....
Everyone is fixated on Mars. But there is a closer world, and a stranger idea. The surface of Venus is hot enough to melt...