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Apr 5, 2022

Canon EOS RP Review

Here is the longer form version of the Canon EOS RP Review that I hinted about during my presentation of the for air version on Friday April 1st 2022: Instead of a lens review this week I’m going to be reviewing a camera body, the Canon EOS RP. I used…

Canon

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Canon EOS RP Review
Canon EOS RP Review
Canon

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Feb 20, 2022

Another This Week In Rocket History I wrote for CosmoquestX.

Another This Week In Rocket History I wrote for CosmoquestX. This week in rocket history is the launch of the first long-duration expedition to Mir, Soyuz TM-2, in 1987. Soyuz TM-2 was the first crewed flight of the new Soyuz TM spacecraft, which incorporated a new rendezvous system, the Kurs…

Space

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Another This Week In Rocket History I wrote for CosmoquestX.
Another This Week In Rocket History I wrote for CosmoquestX.
Space

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Feb 16, 2022

Starlink 4–7 doomed by the Sun

I’ve started branching out, writing less strictly rocket news things for Cosmoquest’s Daily Space news show. ==== One of the more unusual press releases this week came from SpaceX, providing an update on the Starlink 4–7 launch which we covered last week. It turns out that a geomagnetic storm that produced…

Space

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Starlink 4–7 doomed by the Sun
Starlink 4–7 doomed by the Sun
Space

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Jan 24, 2022

This Week In Rocket History: Helios-B

This Week in Rocket History: the second of two joint American-German missions to explore the “main solar processes and solar-terrestrial relationships” launched in 1976. The two Helios spacecraft were built by the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), which made them the first spacecraft not built in the United States…

Space

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This Week In Rocket History: Helios-B
This Week In Rocket History: Helios-B
Space

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Jan 24, 2022

This Week In Rocket History: SRE-1 by ISRO

First 2022 story in the This Week In Rocket History segments I write for Cosmoquest. This week in rocket history is the SRE-1 capsule launch by ISRO. In the first decade of this century, India’s space agency, ISRO, began its own human spaceflight program. This would not be the first…

Space

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This Week In Rocket History: SRE-1 by ISRO
This Week In Rocket History: SRE-1 by ISRO
Space

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Jan 24, 2022

This Week In Rocket History: History of NORAD Tracks Santa

This Week In Rocket History: History of NORAD Tracks Santa 2021 Backlog is complete! seasonally appropriate. Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.and Beth Johnson helped me write and present this story over on Cosmoquest. Instead of a mission or spacecraft event like normal to wrap up the year, we felt it was…

Space

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This Week In Rocket History: History of NORAD Tracks Santa
This Week In Rocket History: History of NORAD Tracks Santa
Space

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Jan 24, 2022

This Week In Rocket History: Apollo 17

This Week In Rocket History: Apollo 17 Still crunching through my backlog, 2022 stories soon! More I wrote for Cosmoquest. This week in Rocket History is the final Apollo lunar landing: Apollo 17. Despite being the last crewed mission to the Moon, it set a few firsts. It was the…

Space

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This Week In Rocket History: Apollo 17
This Week In Rocket History: Apollo 17
Space

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Jan 24, 2022

Another story from my 2021 Backlog of Rocket History stories I originally wrote and presented for…

Another story from my 2021 Backlog of Rocket History stories I originally wrote and presented for Cosmoquest Before NASA launched their first human into space, they needed to prove that the Mercury capsule’s launch escape system would function properly at different altitudes and speeds. They were in a rush, and…

Space

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Another story from my 2021 Backlog of Rocket History stories I originally wrote and presented for…
Another story from my 2021 Backlog of Rocket History stories I originally wrote and presented for…
Space

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Jan 24, 2022

This Week In Rocket History: Pioneer 10’s Flyby of Jupiter

Another story from the 2021 backlog of Rocket History This week wasn’t just a busy one for modern launches; it historically also had a lot going on and picking a topic for This Week in Rocket History wasn’t going to be easy. …

Space

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This Week In Rocket History: Pioneer 10’s Flyby of Jupiter
This Week In Rocket History: Pioneer 10’s Flyby of Jupiter
Space

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Jan 24, 2022

This Week In Rocket History: Buran

I’m really bad at posting these, here’s the first in a massive backlog of Rocket History stories I originally wrote for Cosmoquest’s Daily Space Monday, November 15 2021, marked the 33rd anniversary of the first and only launch of the Soviet Buran Space Shuttle. The Buran program, officially known as…

Space

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This Week In Rocket History: Buran
This Week In Rocket History: Buran
Space

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