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...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... then you’re going to need something else. Mike Suffredini, ISS programme manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center [now CEO of Axiom Space], headed up the Space Station from 2005 to 2015 and probably spent the last half of his time organising...
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...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... Human Exploration & Operations between 2005 and 2019. Prior to that, Gerstenmaier served as the International Space Station Office Program Manager at Johnson Space Center, a position he began in June 2002. He spent a total of four decades with NASA...
24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
..., spare equipment and scientific experiments to the space station. The space pioneering firm are also designing and building the...any other way.” The mockup will remain at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) through early 2021 so that the National Team...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
..., Wernher von Braun, then head of NASA’s Marshall Space Center, envisaged America’s first space station as the re-purposed upper stage (third stage) of a Saturn V rocket. NASA’s Johnson Space Center ruled that an upper stage could not be re-purposed...
