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Post 1: "DBWI" Introduction
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 2: Initial Point of Departure
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 3: Shuttle Cancelled and a Change of Direction
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 4: Planetary Exploration, Mars and Voyagers
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 5: Apollo 18
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 6: Skylab Launch and Recovery
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 7: Skylab 2 and Skylab Repairs
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 8: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project I, Skylab 3, 4, 5, and Skylab End-Of-Mission
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 9: Europe, Europa, and the Rocket That Almost Wasn't
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 10: Skylab Lessons and Learning for Spacelab
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 11: Preparations and Conversions, Skylab-B Becomes Spacelab
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 12: European Involvement in Spacelab and Europa Improvements
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 13: Space Advocacy I: Birth of the National Space Organization
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 14: Saturn 1C and Preparations of LC39
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 15: Space advocacy part II: Gerard K. O'Neill, Space Colonization, and the Lunar Society
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 16: ELVRP I (Expendable Launch Vehicle Replacement Program) and the Delta 4000
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 17: ESA update, Europa 3 design, the Seat Wars, and the creation of the Block III+ Apollo
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 18: Spacelab launch and ASTP II mission
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 19: Beginning of Hubble
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 20: Spacelab missions 1978 through 1979, Spacelab 4-Spacelab 7. Launch of the first ESA astronaut, Ulf Merbold, and addition to the station of the Airlock Module and the European Research Module
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 21: ELVRP II and the need for a new DoD Heavy. NASA added to program as junior partner
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Dec 22, 2017
Interlude #1: A Brief Moment of Culture—Star Trek: The New Voyages
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 22: ELVRP II Proposals and selection of the Saturn Multibody for America’s new heavy launch vehicle
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 23: Soviet Update 1: Mishin out, Glushko in. Selection of the Vulkan launcher, the TKS crew capsule, and the MOK station as the main programs for the Soviet space program
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Dec 22, 2017
Post 24: Vulkan progress, MOK delays, and creation of Salyut 7. Initial round of Vulkan launches in 1982 and results of the “Vulkan Panic.”
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Dec 22, 2017
Part I Technical Interlude (Pictures Broken)
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Dec 22, 2017
Part II: Post 1: Spacelab and International Astronauts
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 2: ESA's Europa 3 and Future Plans
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 3: President Reagan's Space Policy, Sagan Saves Probes, and VOIR
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 4: Japan's First Steps Into Space
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 5: Grand Tours, Pioneer and Voyager Probes
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 6: NASA's Post-Spacelab "Starlab" Evolves Into Reagan's Freedom
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 7: Space Station Starlab evolves into Freedom
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Dec 28, 2017
Culture Interlude #2: Vulkan Panic
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 8: Soviet Unmanned Mars Missions
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 9: US Mission to Mars: Pioneer Mars, Mars Reconnaissance Pioneer, and the Mars Traverse Rovers
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 10: Global Orbital Operations 1980-1983
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 11: Voyagers Visit the Outer Planets
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 12: Comet probes: Helios-Encke and The Halley Armada: Newton/Kirchhoff, Gallei 1/2 and Suisei/Sakigake
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 13: The Strategic Defense Initiative
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 14: Spacelab Operations Through Spacelab 28
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 15: Unmanned Exploration of Venus
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 16: Satellites, Telecoms, and Television
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 17: Commercial Spaceflight of the 1980s
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 18: And Now for Something Completely Different: The Lockheed L-1011 Aircraft
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 19: Galileo and the Giant, Exploration of Jupiter
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 20: Spacelab 28 Investigation and Spacelab End-Of-Mission
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 21: The Hubble Space Telescope
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 22: Beyond Halley: Kirchhoff probe's second mission to Comet Tempel 2
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 23: Mission to the Asteroids: NASA NEAP, ESA Piazzi and Soviet “Grand Tour” program
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 24: Telescopes Beyond Hubble
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 25: Beginning assembly of Space Station Freedom and slow death of Soviet space dreams
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 26: Which way to go? The struggle for a US space program under NASA, the Lunar Society and the National Space Organization
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 27: Beginnings of the Chinese Space Program
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 28: Birth of Project Constellation
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 29: The Exploration Report, the Roadmap for NASA's future
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Dec 28, 2017
Part II: Post 30: Settling for the Moon and Zubrin Strike's Back
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Dec 28, 2017
Part III, Post 1: The post-Cold War space program.
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 2: The Lunar Reconnaissance Pioneer
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 3: American Launch Service's new rockets
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 4: Grumman Aerospace and the X-40 "Starcat" program
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 5: The International Solar Polar Mission and Odysseus' and Telemachus' flight to the Sun
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Interlude #3: The Quiet Years
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 6: The Gore administration, chaos at NASA, and the Richards-Davis Report
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 7: The Artemis lunar program in detail
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 8: The Russian space program and its international partnerships
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 9: The Cassini Probe program
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 10: European launcher development of the 1990s
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 11: Commercial satellite communications from 1965 to the end of the Cold War
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III: Post 12: Lunar exploration and planning in Moon in preparation for the Artemis program
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 13: Russian, Indian, and Chinese space activity, and operations aboard the Mir and Freedom space stations during the 1990s
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 14: The 1994 Christmas Plot
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 15: Domestic American policy after the Christmas Plot
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 16: Progress and developments in the Chinese space program and in NASA's Artemis program
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 17: Unmanned Mars exploration, Fobos-Grunt and Phobos
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 18: Boeing-Grumman and the design and testing of the Artemis Altair lander
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 19: The growth of mobile satellite communications in the US and Europe
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 20: The banker's bet and the Artemis 4 cargo lander flight
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 21: Lockheed's problems with an aging Titan III and the X-33 program
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 22: The Leavitt X-Ray Telescope and what's next for astronomy
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Interlude #4: The cultural effects of the Christmas Plot
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 23: The Comet and Asteroids Pioneer Program
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 24: CAPP Missions, launch and landings
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Nov 18, 2018
Part III, Post 25: The manned Artemis 4 mission to the Moon
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 1: Introduction & Christmas Special, Top Gear races a rocket!
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 2: Space politics at the turn of the millenium
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 3: NASA's plans for the future
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 4: Star Launch Services shake up the commercial launch market with a bold new concept
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 5: American unmanned probe plans
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 6: Freedom operations and the Artemis 5 moon mission
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 7: Russian plans and the Artemis 6 moon mission
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 8: US unmanned probes in the early noughties
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 9: Commercial reactions to StarLaunch Thunderbolt, including Northrop TransOrbital Services
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 10: Artemis 7, 8, and 9 missions visit the lunar farside and South Pole
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 11: American astronomy in the early noughties
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 12: A change of President and NASA Administrator leads to a change of plans in the US and beyond
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 13: “This IS Rocket Science” on the Advanced Crew Vehicle, a look at what might have been
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 14: Russian plans for planetary exploration and lunar partnership
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 15: Artemis 10 and 11, plans for Orion
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 16: ESA's unmanned space missions
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 17: Orion Expedition 1
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 18: The Planetary Science Community Strikes Back
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 19: Reusable space vehicles
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 20: Space based astronomy in the 21st century
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 21: American unmanned exploration
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 22: NASA after Orion and the Saturn-II
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 23: Japanese space probes
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 24: New space stations for Russia, China and the US
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 25: Asian space exploration
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Interlude #5: Look Up and See the Future
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, Post 26: Lunar base planning, commercial moves
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Nov 18, 2018
Part IV, FINALE: The Future
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Nov 18, 2018
Eyes Turned Skyward: 10 Year Retrospective
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Aug 28, 2021

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