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July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...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 model bristles...one’s office. In each of the three cases covered here, the answer is yes. Although the lunar module is more obviously Lego, and the Saturn V has some questionable ‘feature shapes’, when viewed from a metre or so it would...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... question of whether the title of ‘space flight participant’ on a suborbital mission to the ‘edge of space’ will be enough to create an enduring industry is an economic and cultural question for marketing executives to try to answer. Meanwhile, a satisfactory answer to the air-space boundary question, and whether the companies do indeed reach ‘space...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...of Mercury, 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... 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 ...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... be very familiar while others may be less 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... of our partner countries have been travelling 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...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
..., 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. ... curate? The answer to the latter question is perhaps an easier one to address. Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding of the universe and are surely worth...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... how these materials hold up in the space environment are also in their early stages. Many consider the current status of SE-grade material ‘unobtanium’ and while some question whether research for stronger, lighter materials is...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 article. In summary, the risk of debris and other moving bodies will require ...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
... 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 with physics,...discussion with Story Musgrave. Space juggling and the future So why does it matter that someone figured out a new way to juggle, which is suited for space? The simple answer is that juggling is ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... 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 between the US Air... Stuff (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...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... accelerate our efforts to achieve them, leveraging space solutions to do so. Space is not just an enabler of the SDGs, it is a major driver of them, and if that is the case the question I would ask is, are we proactively leveraging space and maximising it’s potential for our common future...
