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...
15 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
...white with a small colour insert. Published six years after the final Shuttle mission in a 30-year-long programme, the book is a timely ...well in tune with the bitter-sweet concept of ‘Space Shuttle as museum exhibit’ and those who have seen one on ...
July 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... to streamline the outer hull. In fact, Dream Chaser has a number of interesting design features. Unlike the Space Shuttle, which could not be approached immediately after landing (because gases had to be vented), access is immediate. As soon as the...
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...
