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2 January 2008

50 Years in Space

The newest issue of Engineering & Science is out. It commemorates the U.S.’s answer to Sputnik, Explorer 1, and the subsequent 50 years of robotic exploration of the universe.
I have two features on the Voyager program (a.k.a. the mission that keeps going and going) and on the Genesis mission (a.k.a the mission that went “splat.”), [...]

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