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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?
...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...152, p. 123–126, 2018. 22 J. Pearson and E. Levin, “Lunar Space Elevator Design in Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development,” Star Inc., 2005. 23 M. Lades, “Mars Lift Update,” in IAC18, Proceedings, 2018. 24 R. Y. (. original), ...
September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
...Despite being involved in the community long enough to question America’s single-point dependency on the unproven Space Shuttle, much of the influencing factors have always been murky. I knew of Dr Robert Goddard and ... on the Moon and on Mars Even today space remains unique. NASA runs the American space programme. There is the European Space Agency, Australian Space Agency, Russian Space Agency, UAE Space Agency. All technically advanced countries...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
..., best exemplified by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky were romantics interested in orbital stations and flights to the Moon, Mars, the solar system and beyond. Such a civilian, non-military motivation still guides the romantics,...(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 spectrum...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
...we push forward to launching new spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) and on to the Moon and Mars, and as more commercial activities develop in space, it’s important that the story of the complexity and beauty...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...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... 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...(NRC) reported in 2014 that NASA’s current budgets, strategies and missions will not get American astronauts to Mars. Red planet priority No agency can require an operator in high density orbital regimes to maintain a transponder ...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... you can safely say that if you saw humans walk on the Moon, watched a spacecraft land on Mars, enter orbit around a planet or encounter an asteroid or comet, then those images and accompanying data were ... 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 as...
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... us if we allowed this powerful symbol of international collaboration to disappear. One of the landers on Mars might one day be the first to unequivocally discover evidence of life beyond the Earth; surely that spacecraft...
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...
