July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
...when the original Canadarm was being conceived. About the author Tim Braithwaite manages the Canadian Space Agency’s Liaison Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. In this role, he acts as the principal in-person point of contact between the Canadian...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... by the rover’s CheMin X-Ray diffractometer, is the mineral tridymite. A team led by Dr Richard Morris at the NASA Johnson Space Center concluded that the presence of tridymite was evidence of eruptions from volcanoes like Earth’s explosive volcanoes...
08 April 2016
Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... the future," said Kirk Shireman, ISS program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in the briefing. "Humans will be using these kinds...the company views as critical to opening up the space frontier. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has ...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... a point where support and rescue operations from Earth will not be possible. Dr Michael R Callahan from NASA Johnson Space Center says in his latest review about biofilm management on spacecraft: “Finding a method of biofilm prevention or mitigation...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
...8.1 million views (see https://vimeo.com/55073825). Recently, I travelled to Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston to interview 10 astronauts, three of whom were on the International Space Station (ISS) at the time. Some of these interviews were made...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
... of the most difficult and dangerous parts of going to the Moon,” said Mark Kirasich, Orion program manager at Johnson Space Center in Houston. “This test mimicked some of the most challenging conditions Orion will ever face should an emergency...
