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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...goals was to strengthen the state’s position as the global leader in aerospace research, investment, exploration and commerce. Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on launch pad 39-A in May 2011 before its STS-134 mission, just months...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 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 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
.... This was legally reinforced at international level, with the 1967 United Nations Treaty on the Peaceful Exploration of Outer Space. On 24 November 2021, Russia successfully launched a classified military satellite, believed to be part of... 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. ...
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...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
...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 not...test and evaluate commercial weather data and services. Realigning space exploration Space exploration is an important part of the United States’ leadership in the world. When space exploration is in the national interest but the risks or costs...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...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 heaven. The big crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly as...project came together. We built an exhibit that had a storyline, telling visitors about the history of space exploration, from the origins of rocketry in China hundreds of years ago, to the modern dreamers of spaceflight...
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 obsession ...from the components and structure of our concepts. Through the development of this work, I explored a very different reality than all my previous gravitationally-bound experiences. Though this has been...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... paint 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 debris...should not prevent us from examining the significance of these artefacts which represent the legacy of our exploration beyond the cradle of our birth into a wider universe. More important than just providing a ...
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...
