Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

Flying saucers return

Spectacular catch – NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is retrieved from the Pacific after a near-space test flight. The LDSD project is evaluating landing technologies for future Mars missions

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Cleaning up space

Astronautics

Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time

Security

The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home

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Portrait of astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center, Ellen Ochoa who in 1993 became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Lounge

Art, imagination and the human spirit

Opinion

Spaceflight and the radiation problem