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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 the transformation that ... trade port and global leader in enabling space commerce Later this year, as the US again flies American astronauts to space from American soil, from the place where it all began more than 60 years ago...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...first elevator may be as expensive as the Space Shuttle but its successful construction would represent a paradigm shift and a commitment to space. So how close are we to the dream of simple access to space for all, at the push of a ...in Germany. He has led R&D, IT and information security projects, and now works in Germany as a freelancer. Martin joined the Space Elevator community in 2004 and was a significant contributor on the optical design...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... provisions are necessary. If they are absent, it might be much more difficult for governmental institutions to acquire the necessary documents of qualification from the operator, to inspect facilities from which space activities are performed...Hofmann is holder of the SES Chair in Space, SatCom and Media Law at the University of Luxembourg, where she serves as co-director of the Masters programme in Space, Communication & Media Law. She has edited...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... 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 flight is the most... 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 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... larger building space had been tacked on in the early 1980s, it was still relatively empty with the same, now faded, blue material on the walls. The Director had given me free reign, so where to start?... 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...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... the Ukraine war. In reality, current developments may not be as novel as they are being portrayed: the cold war and, indeed, the hysteria of the ‘new ...shuttle flights marked the normalisation of military space. Romantic adventure that spaceflight might be, those in authority reached the view - accurately it seems - that there was now a public acceptance of the legitimacy of military space. So where are the world’s military space programmes now...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...are that she remained practically immobile for the duration of her flight and didn’t eat during her three days in space. Surviving members of the original Mercury 13 on a Kennedy Space Center visit to witness a Space Shuttle launch - though they...who were working on calculating trajectories for the Apollo missions. They were living in a racially segregated society and calculating where spacecraft were going to travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere. That...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... 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... - are brought to us through space. Unfortunately, these breakthroughs from space technologies are no longer assured. Potential enemies of the United States are developing capabilities to deny the use of space even if it means denying space entirely...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...now been occupied continuously 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... For those who wish to build these kits for their own amusement, there is the question of whether they are ‘good enough’ to display in one’s office. In each of the three cases covered here, the ...
