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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... 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 ... 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 the first ...
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 percent... new concepts based on strong tethers, including space elevators, as enabling engineering cornerstones of space infrastructure. Galactic Harbour concept with more than one elevator and commercial use of the far end as a launch ramp ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... 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...in nature, providing a range of reconnaissance capabilities. Dual use in practice ‘Dual-use’ presents a problem in the analysis of military space - satellites that could be used for military and/or civilian purposes, principally for navigation. ...
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...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... in December 2019 after it suffered technical problems that prevented it docking with the International Space Station. The capsule used parachutes and airbags to make a soft touchdown in New Mexico’s White Sands testing range...and hydrogen available in the exposed lunar crust could be enough to power the equivalent of a daily Space Shuttle launch for 22,000 years, supporting thousands of people living off-Earth. Eliminating the expense required to ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... remember it as a bag of standard-sized bricks and a large grey baseboard, on which houses were built using a selection of clip-in windows and doors and some angled roof-bricks. It was an intuitive toy, but ... 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 the author Mark...
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...assured. Potential enemies of the United States are developing capabilities to deny the use of space even if it means denying space entirely for future generations. China has reportedly demonstrated directed energy capabilities, direct ...
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 ...given me a unique vocabulary to help conceptualise and communicate these complex ideas. The type of language we use while learning to move our bodies is more important than most people realise, and I am reminded of...
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 ...pieces of heatshield, materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. However, the big items like the LM descent engine would require a specially ...
