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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... it could to help revive the industry. The starting point was to reduce the dependence on an, at times, unpredictable federal programmes. As America and the world watched a Space Shuttle land for the final time in 2011, the ...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?
...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 .... The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) cosmic study on the Space Elevator 2013 [20] and one to appear 2018, are good starting points for detailed information from the tether dynamics to climber energy sources...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... 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 There has been a normalisation of the narrative, starting with Star Wars in 1980s...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... to the crates! I started with the smallest one first. Inside were pieces 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..., materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several 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 ...
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 ... standby could help rapidly populate and reconstitute constellations. To support building this small launcher army, ASRA starts a Department of Defense (DoD) Venture Class Launch Services pilot programme modelled on NASA’s and awards...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...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 ...-based juggling. In the rotating frame, it doesn’t follow a line or a parabola. I dug in deeper and started working out the maths. I created a formula which calculates the trajectory of the balls when thrown from...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... so, and I am so thankful 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... 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
...but since it was first proposed to the British Interplanetary Society in 2017 the suggestion of creating a ‘Space Museum’ has been starting to take on a life of its own. Dr Stuart Eves suggests that the idea may no ..., 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...
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...
