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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...and investing in commercialising aged or under-utilised assets. Facilities that once launched NASA’s Apollo and Space Shuttle missions are now launching commercial rockets. The state’s spaceport system is a living example of ...Processing Facilities (OPF) of NASA that were used to turnaround and process the Space Shuttle after landing for subsequent re-flight to space. Space Florida secured a long-term property agreement for the first of these, OPF ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...launch failures. The rocket equation for chemical rockets results in only a small payload fraction. The space shuttle carried only one train-wagon-equivalent payload to LEO, around 27.5 metric tons (mt), or 1.4 percent...demand will manifest the meme of new concepts based on strong tethers, including space elevators, as enabling engineering cornerstones of space infrastructure. Galactic Harbour concept with more than one elevator and commercial use ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... over, the civilian purpose was reasserted. When both the United States and Soviet Union fired re-engineered German military A-4 rockets into the atmosphere in the 1950s, they advertised their peaceful purpose in ...Stuff (Warner Brothers, 1983) unmistakeably reflected the US government and media portrayal of early space as ‘peaceful purposes’. The Space Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Full spectrum...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
...of the photographers who are chronicling the magnificent beauty of spaceflight. To me, this picture of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s roll to the launch pad for her final flight is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen...engineering and a wonderful example of international cooperation. Crew members from all of our partner countries have been travelling to and from the ISS together for the past 20 years – over half that time in parallel with Space Shuttle...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... of heatshield, materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. For a space-nut like me, it was heaven. The big crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly as... types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. However, the big items like the LM descent engine would require a specially constructed case. The engine itself weighed-in at nearly half a ton. ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
..., lack-of-saleability reasons). It could, however, be time to consider that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle, as it drifts further into the mists of history and rose-tinted recollection. About the ... and writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of six ...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...flake travelling in excess of 17,500 miles per hour is significant, as shown by craters observed in Space Shuttle windows. Whilst larger assets such as the ISS have Whipple shielding to provide a measure of protection ...trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars. About the author Charles Simpson is a PhD researcher in Aerospace Engineering at Kingston University, London, focusing on supersonic parachute systems for planetary landers. He is also founder ...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...might witness in a future space bar while sharing a space beer with some space friends. Growing up near the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and in Florida, within view of Space Shuttles leaving the planet, I ...developed an early appreciation for space exploration. In addition to my love of the cosmos, and perhaps related to my...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried out by world governments. Many do not realise... that our very way of life depends on space. Space has transformed how we communicate, navigate, produce food and energy, and conduct banking, growing our economy...
