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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... agencies 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 the transformation that we had...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... 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, around 27.5 metric tons (mt), or 1.4 percent of total...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 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
...Apollo and Skylab programmes to transport astronauts to Launch Complex 39 and, thereafter, for the first eight Space Shuttle missions. The vehicle itself is currently on display at the Apollo Saturn V Center at the KSC Visitor ...pad until the commander lost a hand. US astronaut Chris Ferguson, who flew on three Shuttle missions and commanded the final mission in 2011, is as familiar with the original Astrovan as anyone. “I always associate this...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... scientific curiosity to commercially-recognised threat. Historically, awareness of space hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections has... changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
...signed an agreement for Canada to develop a robotic arm for the US Space Shuttle. Canadarm on Space Shuttle mission STS-2 in November 1981. The Space Shuttle arm became a Canadian government programme, led by the National Research Council...July 2011, ending the Space Shuttle programme, Canadarms had supported more than 60 Shuttle missions. In addition to assembling the ISS, these missions serviced the Hubble Space Telescope, deployed and retrieved ...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
...activities develop in space, it’s important that the story of the complexity and beauty of the spacecraft continues to be told through the art of photography, so we can all better understand the mission for humanity ... to all 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. With...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... (SDI) marked the formal weaponization of military space. Although the shuttle never flew from the west coast, there were military payloads or dedicated military shuttle missions, estimated at eleven from 1982-92. It was... nor finding out more about these missions. Only a few reported on its successor, the X-37 spaceplane. In effect, the secret shuttle flights marked the normalisation of military space. Romantic adventure that spaceflight might be,...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...facsimile of the ISS, measuring about 48 x 30 x 24 cm when complete. It is mounted on a Lego-built stand with a Space Shuttle, capsule and several ‘cargo spacecraft’ that can be docked to the station. Like the real thing, the..., 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 author...
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...
