June 2018
Striding through space
... it. By the time he was assigned to the tenth Shuttle mission, he was extensively trained and rehearsed. Suit and ...ahead through the ‘plano’ portion of the spectacles.” Shuttle launch Space Shuttle Challenger was launched on mission STS-41B on 3 ...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
...programme by using its technology to begin building a cislunar infrastructure Human space projects after Apollo, especially the Shuttle programme, were consistently compromised funding-wise and suffered from a lack of true purpose – which should have...
12 December 2016
John Glenn; one of NASA's original 'Mercury 7' astronauts dies aged 95
... in space on his second flight, aboard space shuttle Discovery. Image: NASA Speaking yesterday of the news...to venture into space as a crew member on the Discovery space shuttle -- once again advancing our understanding of living and working in space...
January 2016
Space for Art
...delighted” that she had become the first astronaut of the Space Shuttle/Space Station era to choose art as her next step in ... Stott during her EVA in 2009 on the STS-128 Space Shuttle mission in support of assembly of the International Space Station I...
May 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...the mid-1970s, when the early designs of the Space Shuttle were indeed fully reusable. However, President Nixon imposed a...that NASA opted to take the former course. The resulting Shuttle was mostly expendable and therefore just as expensive and risky ...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried out by world governments...
