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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...of location - proximity to both the ocean and equator. With time, the world watched as the historic missions of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle launched from Florida, as well as numerous defence and planetary... and NASA infrastructure, by partnering with those agencies 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...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...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 of total rocket mass with over 2,000 mt on the launchpad. The largest ... 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...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
...resources. Plans to mine the Moon and asteroids are in place, confronting scholars, politicians and space professionals with challenging legal, economic, scientific and ethical questions. Some of these questions are deceptively simple to...Earth will be the only privately owned Moon materials on Earth”. Another private US company with outer space mining ambitions is Planetary Resources, whose early investors included Larry Page, Richard Branson and ...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... a vision for an innovative integrated system of garments to be used during human space flight missions with dedicated characteristics, for microgravity conditions and confined environments to increase comfort, efficiency and wearability... I recently led and developed a project commissioned by Thales Alenia Space for a new spaceship. It looked at a recreational space, with more room for astronauts’ entertainment, aimed at emphasising the Italian ...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...to the crates! I started with the smallest one first. Inside 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... a year coming out to see it and 10,000 school students and their teachers coming to learn about the wonders of space and Australia’s important role in that endeavour. We’ve been able to build many...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
...Stephen Hawking; as well as everyone from high school teachers to starry-eyed children, to me and maybe you too. People will find different reasons to travel into space. To feel weightless, even for a moment, ...hypothetical journey to Mars, from the author’s book The Everyday Space Traveler with a foreword by Buzz Aldrin. We also know that travelling into space is riddled with question marks. Our understanding of how the human organism responds to...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... 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 of colour and complexity, it is stunning. A work... 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 2019
Space industry prime directive
...research and not do everything all in one place. Charlie Bolden addresses Kennedy Space Center employees and contractors with the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the background after its final spaceflight ended the 30-year programme ...in July 2011. We’ve achieved a lot in space in the 50 years since Apollo 11. Where do you...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... 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 There has been a normalisation of the narrative, starting with Star Wars in 1980s...
