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.”), and a short article on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a proposed spacecraft to detect gravitational waves.
