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Drew Ex Machina 10th Anniversary: Top Ten Posts
I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new website, Drew Ex Machina. In that first article, “A Europa-Io Sample Return Mission”, I...
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Recollections of NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission
Like a lot of kids who grew up during the ‘60s and ‘70s, I had a fascination with spaceflight. This interest started honestly enough back around 1966 when I was about four years old after my mother sat...
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Epsilon Indi’s Super Jovian Exoplanet – Background & New Observations by JWST
On July 24, 2024, an international team of scientists, headed by Dr. Elisabeth Matthews of the Max Plank Institute for Astronomy, announced that they had used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to...
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An ISS Success Story: CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone Intensity Measurements from...
The team at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA), where this author is the Chief Scientist, had the honor of having our poster about our previous work on the ISS, CyMISS, and our current Hurricane Hunter...
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First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959
Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using an ever growing collection of satellites. These images, in addition to supplying...
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First Pictures: Color View of the Earth & A Tropical Depression from Space –...
While today we are inundated with color images of the Earth, our earliest views from space were confined to monochromatic or black and white images (see “First Pictures: The View of Earth from Space –...
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You Can’t Fail Unless You Try: NASA’s Pioneer P-3 Lunar Orbiter
Space enthusiasts of a certain age, like myself, grew up learning about the trio of NASA’s unmanned programs which provided scientists and engineers with vital information about the Moon before the...
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Apollo A-002: Testing the Limits of the Launch Escape System
One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover all phases of ascent. In order to support abort options on...
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Top Ten Posts of 2024
Now that we are at the end of 2024, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see which of the new essays I posted during this site’s eleventh year online, along...
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The Hurricane Hunter Satellites: A Weather Nanosatellite Constellation
A group photo of the attendees of the National Tropical Weather Conference 2025 taken on April 3, 2025. TWA’s Chief Scientist, Andrew LePage, is visible near the center of the back row with his head...
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