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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 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...demands half the binding energy from gravity matching the spacecraft’s kinetic energy. For LEO, that means providing around 100 times the specific kinetic energy of a high-speed bullet and around 10 times its... 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 ...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... 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 wonderful complement of colour and complexity, it is stunning. A work of art. And even though it’s night time, you can feel the light and colour and simple beauty...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
... 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...art and mathematics that it is: truly ‘Space Art’ as opposed to ‘art about space.’ It isn’t a painting of a planet or a dance about the Moon. More than making art about space, I wish to make art within space, art of space, and the art of the space...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... 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 heaven. The big crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly as tall... in Canberra is that we are blessed with some of the best cultural institutions in the country: art galleries, museums and libraries filled with exhibits. The other big advantage of these places is that they...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...stage turbopumps could empty an Olympic swimming pool in 16 minutes. More practically, they will learn the arts of component-identification, subassembly-construction, process-repeatability… and possibly patience. Ideally, though, you need a..., 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 ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...hidden for most of our ‘Global Space Age’. Seventy years of techno-industrial competition in the global space sector has been known to only those inside it and to liberal arts and humanities academics who cared to ...1960s were in part deliberate covers for developing essential military space technologies such as more capable missiles, nuclear warheads and spy satellites. The US Space Shuttle was in part originally designed and funded to meet the...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... 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... around the Earth, or sitting on other celestial bodies. London s Science Museum s Space Descent VR exhibit uses state-of-the-art VR technology to allow visitors a 360° look inside a Soyuz capsule and retrace British...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...more than evident to the expanding population of space trackers, amateurs and enthusiasts. The key moment that military space became public was the space shuttle, whose operational capabilities and features were negotiated ...Warner 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. Full ...
