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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
- Sep 6, 2022
- 4 min
Operation Sandy and Sea-Based Rocket Launches
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of when the Navy launched a V-2 from the deck of an aircraft carrier.
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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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Aeryn Avilla
- Feb 27, 2022
- 6 min
Operation Backfire and the British Megaroc
Megaroc was the name of the manned V-2 rocket proposed by the British Interplanetary Society in 1946. How did it work?
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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
- May 26, 2021
- 7 min
God Save the Queen: The British Interplanetary Society's Lunar Landing
In the late 1930s, a group of British scientists devised a plan to land men on the moon. What became of it?
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