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...
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...
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...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... example, figure 2 shows ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in training at the 3D virtual reality laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas: he is using a VR headset to learn how to operate his spacesuit’s SAFER emergency pack. Likewise...
22 November 2017
JWST completes crucial cryogenic test
... Corporation – a leading technology innovator in avionics, space and intelligence – has partnered with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to successfully complete thermal vacuum testing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); confirming that the soon...
