October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
...technology is adopted for further development by non-NASA U.S. customers, the NASA development path for the AIE concept will be... capabilities more-directly supportive of the non-NASA customers is possible. Despite limited resources significant...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... beyond today’s engineering capabilities, it is nonetheless physically possible. Solar sails are a technology whose time has come. NASA, private space groups and other governments are developing the technology for their next generation of scientific...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
...organizational causes of the Columbia accident - concluded that NASA’s organization for the Shuttle program combined, among other ... digging deeper into both the problem and the NASA rationale. NASA’s response is disingenuous in the extreme. Safety and...
June 2018
Striding through space
..., pointing at his suited white figure in one of the most famous photographs of spaceflight. As he drifted out to 80 feet, the NASA commentator announced: “McCandless and his MMU constitute a separate spacecraft of their own now.” “I’d been told about...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
...and mission commander on STS-45 and STS-60 before becoming NASA Administrator from July 2009 to January 2017. Today he... you should do and another to actually bring yourself to do it. Is NASA going to let go of the Space Station in the same way? No,...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... could establish the US as the world’s leading space power. NASA ramped up its activities to deliver on the President’s commitment, and...the upper stages of a space rocket. Now leading NASA’s rocket developments, Wernher von Braun pushed forward with ...
