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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...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 ...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...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...vaporise the payload, as has been proven in some 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, ... 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, large and small, and the possible responses are complex [19] and beyond this...
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...what the artist is feeling. In this piece, I bring the audience as close to my experience as can be offered through video - I wish to offer you a chance to float a mile in my shoes. Still, I expect that each person ...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... inside it. It felt heavy, maybe 10 kg. I lifted it out, unwrapped it and found it was a camera, an old video camera. Not a VHS or Betamax camcorder, but older, much older. It had a big fish-eye looking lens...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...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... 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...space museum with a celebrity companion. Fortunately for the implementation of this concept, the technical capabilities needed to build and launch small inspector satellites continue to advance. Extremely capable small satellite missions with video...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... seems to have been pioneered in 1990 by the American shuttle-launched Prowler, since imitated by the Russian Luch Olymp (2014). In conclusion, it is not clear if the actual nature of military space has changed much since the opening days of the...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... 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... 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...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... for two decades, since the launch of the first component in 1998. This 864-piece set is a decent 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...
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 ...collision will create thousands of pieces of debris and result in more collisions. Instead of no new launches, however, launches will continue with increasing frequency and constellations of hundreds or even thousands of satellites will be placed ...
