March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
... debris (those pesky Russians again!). The debris detaches Bullock’s character from her shuttle and also causes irreparable damage to the shuttle itself. High drama ensues. If you haven’t seen it, I don’t want to spoil it for you...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
..., The Space Review, March 8, 2010. Lafleur states that the Shuttle program cost a total of $198 billion, spread over 41 years... stages in 1972 to the final flight in 2012). Each shuttle flight cost around $1.4 billion. Even more expensive were the ...
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... advances made in the past few decades. In the 1970s, the Space Shuttle developers considered the repeat use of a vehicle to reduce the cost of...motor case were both reused. Later, when the Shuttle was used for practical missions, the burdens of ...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...with the space programme? Space hotel with zero-g stadium and super-shuttles (Gouache + digital). From ‘Futures: 50 Years in Space’... great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases ...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
...-going activities we can discuss power in several ways. According to NASA, the main engines propelling the Space Shuttle to Earth orbit generate a total of 37 million horse-power. Alternatively, we can define power in terms of work/time, as an astro...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
...turned the lights back on and finished their work. Another ‘incident’ occurred on 21 October 1995 on board US Space Shuttle Columbia during its STS-73 mission. “We have an unidentified flying object”, joked mission specialist Catherine ‘Cady’ Coleman...
