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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...Florida, and particularly Florida’s Space Coast, after it was announced that the high-profile US Space Shuttle programme was to be terminated. Space Florida, the state’s aerospace and spaceport development authority was ...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...
15 June 2020
Space Shuttle A Photographic Journey
..., changing my mind constantly but ultimately [staying] true to my original concept”, which was to “focus primarily on the shuttle itself [and] pay homage to the…sheer beauty of the design, detail and elegance of the spacecraft”. From... - which features a top view of the Orbiter for the ‘A’ of Space - the iconic nature of the Space Shuttle is evident: from its symmetrical stance on the pad to its delta-wing silhouette gliding to a landing; from the...
16 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
... continue for decades to come. This book provides ammunition to the debate by considering the place of the Space Shuttle in the broader history of spaceflight. Subtitled ‘Redefining Humanity’s Purpose in Space’, it is written by the Chair ...itself! It is illustrated in black-and-white with a small colour insert. Published six years after the final Shuttle mission in a 30-year-long programme, the book is a timely reminder of the state of play in ...
16 January 2022
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31
... “Lego’s replica space programme” [issue #24, 2020], in which I suggested “that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle”, as the next space-related Lego model. Little did I know it was already in the works! In celebration of the... 40th anniversary of the Shuttle’s first launch in 1981, Lego released this incredible 2354-piece puzzle for reasonably well-off adults...
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 of... flight had ample other Canadian content, with CSA astronaut Steve MacLean serving as the Shuttle’s CAPCOM in the Shuttle Control Room. On the ISS side, Danielle Cormier and Tim Braithwaite (the two Canadians...
June 2018
Striding through space
...flight operations, both eyes looked straight ahead through the ‘plano’ portion of the spectacles.” Shuttle launch Space Shuttle Challenger was launched on mission STS-41B on 3 February 1984 under the command of ...,” McCandless advised. A few pulses of the manoeuvring jets, and he managed to grab it off the aft end of the Shuttle. CapCom commented: “At least it won’t be re-entering in a few days,” to which McCandless deftly replied: “I hope it’ll ...
29 March 2021
Russia to develop new uncrewed spaceplane
According to Russian domestic news site RIA Novosti, the country is developing a new mini space shuttle, that is comparable in size to the US Air force’s mysterious space plane, the X-37B. The craft, which will be ... Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s as a response to the United States Space Shuttle programme. The project was downsized and eventually cancelled in the 90s, but at the time it was the...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... programme by using its technology to begin building a cislunar infrastructure Human space projects after Apollo, especially the Shuttle programme, were consistently compromised funding-wise and suffered from a lack of true purpose – which should have...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
.... Hand and machine sewing is an important activity in the space industry – from the fabric used between Space Shuttle tiles to the straps that keep astronauts in place. In space, everything works differently than on Earth due to...programming instructions that contained 589,824 ones and zeros! NASA’s seamstresses also dressed the Space Shuttle. They made multilayered flexible insulation blankets out of silica batting that protected the module from ...
