January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... core stage. The test will be the largest liquid-engine test since the stage tests of the Saturn V in the 1960s. From there, the core stage with the four engines integrated will be shipped to KSC...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
...even know about the existence of exoplanets. Animal bay on a futuristic spaceship. Planetary exploration The collection of data on Saturn’s rings is done with hundreds of probes inspecting their rocks. The atmosphere of Venus is modelled with the aid...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
..., thereafter, for the first eight Space Shuttle missions. The vehicle itself is currently on display at the Apollo Saturn V Center at the KSC Visitor Complex. Why should the Boeing company be particularly interested in this potted history...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... astronauts were going and what they might do there. My recollections are of building Airfix scale models of the Saturn V and the weird and wonderful Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), and of TV shows and science fiction novels...
May 2021
NASA’s women of inspiration
... and Aerospace Engineering and MS and PhD from MIT, to then working on several missions including Cassini to Saturn and GRAIL. She is currently the Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) Operations Lead for Perseverance which involves figuring...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... a purely US activity, Artemis will involve a coalition of partner countries and space agencies. Apollo hardware, from the Saturn V rockets to the lunar landers, was designed, owned and operated by the US government; for Artemis NASA is contracting...
