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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... unease descended on the space ecosystem across the State of Florida, and particularly Florida’s Space Coast, after it was announced that the high-profile US Space Shuttle programme was to be terminated. Space Florida, the state’s ...former Orbital 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...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... elevator, as anything that doesn’t follow an exactly periodic orbit and passes the plane of the elevator will 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...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...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 ...that would do the job of housing some of the smaller items like the cameras and models. Inside were pieces of heatshield, materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...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 Pentagon’s and the Intelligence Community’s needs. The Hubble Space Telescope is an adapted KH-11 spy satellite that simply looks to the...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... them in the Space Station programme. The success of Canadarm on the Space Shuttle led naturally to a study of potential Canadian participation in the programme. Marc Garneau’s first flight on the Space Shuttle that year fostered an... even more favourable climate across Canada for Canadian involvement. Canada’s contribution would be a suite of space robots for Space Station assembly and maintenance...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... several images that illustrate this. Some will 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...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...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... of military programmes was 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 between the...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...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 with payloads...probably for 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...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
...When most people think of space, they think of the space race between the 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 realise that our very way of life depends on space. Space has transformed how...
