ROOM: The Space Journal is one of the major magazines on space exploration, technology and industry. At ROOM, we share a common goal – advancement of peaceful space exploration for the benefit of humankind, all while bringing you throughly researched articles on a variety of trending topics. Our authors include scientists and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you timely and accurate information about space shuttle astronauts.
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 the... economic boom of America’s thriving space programme as the Air Force ...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
.... Enter Airstream Airstream has played a role in America’s space programme since the late-1960s From 1983, until the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, American astronauts got their ride to the pad in an Airstream Astrovan,...) of Starliner in December. Starliner itself is important because, after NASA’s Space Shuttle was decommissioned there were no options to launch American astronauts into orbit from US soil for nearly a decade. “When I drive ...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... to clean drinking water when we can satisfy that same need for astronauts. ROOM managing editor Clive Simpson talking to Charlie Bolden at the Global Space Congress in Abu Dhabi. In the UAE, water is a major issue ... research and not do everything all in one place. Charlie Bolden addresses Kennedy Space Center employees and contractors with the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the background after its final spaceflight ended the 30-year programme in ...
June 2018
Striding through space
... of Space Shuttle Challenger some 60 m away. A minor mystery about this photo was the location of fellow spacewalker, Bob Stewart. In fact, he is mostly hidden behind the Shuttle’s manipulator arm. It may seem extraordinary to the lay person that astronauts, often...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... had created flight opportunities for Canadian astronauts In 1984, the US invited international friends and allies to join them in the Space Station programme. The success of Canadarm on the Space Shuttle led naturally to a study of ... with the other agencies. The CSA’s valued partnership with NASA resulted in more Canadian astronaut flights on the Space Shuttle as well as long-duration missions on the ISS. Canadarm2 manoeuvres the US Quest airlock...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... 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 into orbit was about to become a whole lot harder,...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...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... 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...Pioneering_Spirit. [Accessed 14 10 2018]. 7 J. Pearson, “Konstatin Tsiolkovski and the Origins of the Space Elevator,” in 48th International Astronautical Congress, Turin, Italy, 1997. 8 J. Pearson, “The orbital tower: a spacecraft launcher using...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... American teacher aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger when it was lost in January 1986, poignantly said: “Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new ... quite different from when the Outer Sace Treaty was signed in 1967. The Hubble Space telescope and initial cohort of astronauts discovered an entirely new universe that, prior to 1957, humans could only imagine. Now...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
..., at least, provide assurance that there will be funding in future. Artist’s concept depicting the Space Shuttle Endeavour with the 60 m (200 ft) antenna of its SAR sensor almost deployed in Earth orbit... applications. In the case of space, the concept of industrial application seems elusive because the commercialisation of space activities is a relatively new concept. For example, during the US Space Shuttle era, a synthetic aperture radar ...
