ROOM: The Space Journal is one of the major magazines on space exploration, technology and industry. At ROOM, we share a common goal – promotion of peaceful space exploration for the benefit of humankind, all while bringing you incisive articles on a variety of interesting topics. Our authors include experts and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the most up-to-date and detailed information about a space shuttle launch at night.
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle launched from Florida, as well as numerous defence and planetary science missions. Astronauts flew aboard the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station and the Space Coast region rode ...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...
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 ...collision will create thousands of pieces of debris and result in more collisions. Instead of no new launches, however, launches will continue with increasing frequency and constellations of hundreds or even thousands of satellites will be placed ...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...Guiana) and wide roads or railways to bring in the outsize cargoes. Three sites built long, adjacent shuttle runways: Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg and Baikonur. Structures Some facilities were abandoned and rotted but became... west coast base, Vandenberg, is a different story: space enthusiasts must hope to see launches from distant hills, the Amtrak train winding through the site, or at night from faraway Los Angeles. It’s just as tough for Israeli...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...vaporise the payload, as has been proven in some spectacular 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, ... eventually hit it. This danger is as real as a speck of paint almost taking out the window of the space shuttle! The risks of debris, large and small, and the possible responses are complex [19] and beyond this...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... explosion over Hawaii (July 1962), so bright that people could read the newspaper outside at night by its light, knocked out both the famous Telstar communications satellite and the first British satellite...to have been pioneered in 1990 by the American shuttle-launched Prowler, since imitated by the Russian Luch Olymp (2014). In conclusion, it is not clear if the actual nature of military space has changed much since the opening days of the...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... picture of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s roll to the launch pad for her final flight is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. With its wonderful complement of colour and complexity, it is stunning. A work of art. And even though it’s night time, you... to and from the ISS together for the past 20 years – over half that time in parallel with Space Shuttle flights, and now our sole means of transport since the...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
..., cars, etc, but probably no satellites that have actually flown in space. There are, of course, a few re-entry capsules and a limited cadre of space shuttles, manned vehicles that were deliberately designed to return to Earth. But in... a headset and taking a trip to fly around an iconic satellite of your choice - perhaps Britain’s Prospero, launched in 1971 and still in orbit. You could then compare its condition with the flight spare suspended...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... in a single 10-year period… but that might be about to change. In 2010, with the costly Space Shuttle about to be retired, the dream of future human explorers returning to the Moon seemed lost. Getting astronauts ...and hydrogen available in the exposed lunar crust could be enough to power the equivalent of a daily Space Shuttle launch for 22,000 years, supporting thousands of people living off-Earth. Eliminating the expense required to lift ...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...her flight and didn’t eat during her three days in space. Surviving members of the original Mercury 13 on a Kennedy Space Center visit to witness a Space Shuttle launch - though they were not given the chance to become astronauts... and the United States would not launch a woman into space until 1983, these women ...
