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16 January 2022
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31
... of ROOM may remember my article on “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,...
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 its... 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...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...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 ...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 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...flake travelling in excess of 17,500 miles per hour is significant, as shown by craters observed in Space Shuttle windows. Whilst larger assets such as the ISS have Whipple shielding to provide a measure of protection from.... Case study One notable space asset within the space heritage discussion is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Launched in 1988 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, it is clear that the venerable space telescope has a limited future...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
...participating in two missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008 and 2013, accumulating 180 days in space. As a mission specialist on STS-124 she rode on was part of a crew on Space Shuttle Discovery playing its part in building the ISS..., Nyberg loved to photograph the breathtaking views of the Earth through the windows of the space station’s cupola: swirly ocean currents, dense forests, sandy deserts, patterned white clouds, golden...
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...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...a celestial body other than Earth. Eileen Collins became the first female to pilot the Space Shuttle. Ed Dwight - the first African-American -astronaut trainee (selected by the Kennedy administration...Space Shuttle Discovery in December 2006 Margaret Hamilton, who developed flight software for the Apollo space programme (work that eventually prevented an abort of the first Moon landing almost triggered by the computer) is also credited with coining...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... model to illustrate prowess in Lego-building (see Practicalities). The third model of note commemorates the International Space Station, which has now been occupied continuously for two decades, since the launch of the...commercial, 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...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... of embarrassment too, for an admission of the extent of military space would undermine the popular view of disinterested exploration, discovery, heroic astronauts and cosmonauts, scientific applications and communications satellites. This ...Brothers, 1983) unmistakeably reflected the US government and media portrayal of early space as ‘peaceful purposes’. The Space Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base...
