Nearly 50 years before chess champion Garry Kasparov battled IBM’s Deep Blue computer in the ballyhooed man-versus-machine contest of 1996,…
Browsing: Giant Steps
Milestones in the history of military space
The Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first artificial satellite in 1957 is best known for igniting the Space Age,…
PHOTOS BY NASA Twenty-five years ago, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and two Russian cosmonauts paved the way for others…
TIROS-1, the world’s first weather satellite, operated for less than three months but inspired an Earth observation fleet that has…
APOGEE STAFF More than a century ago, the man who would become known as the father of modern rocketry was…
Apogee Staff Its inventors were thinking small when they hit on something big 25 years ago. Now-retired Stanford University Professor…
Apogee staff The more than 300 military satellites orbiting Earth keep tabs on missile tests, enable battlefield communication and provide…
Technologies deployed during Desert Storm play key role in creation of Space Force APOGEE STAFF Long before the 2020 National…