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...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
...was introduced into training practice, which involved a year in a foreign space centre (in Houston, USA, and Star City, Russia) as an...as the crew doctor of the STS-63 expedition at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Since 1998, he has been a member ...
22 June 2020
Virgin Galactic announces an agreement with NASA for private orbital spaceflight to the ISS
... aerospace company, announced today the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (“ISS”) while enabling the development...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... nerve sheath. Several ISS astronauts have noted a sudden drop in visual ability. The chief scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center says of this issue: “This is one that we don’t yet have a handle on and it could be a show-stopper.” Volunteers...
