May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... low Earth orbit it was collected by the Space Shuttle and returned so the exposed material samples could be evaluated... by atomic oxygen attack during a relatively short Space Shuttle mission. Cross-sections revealed the interconnector to have thinned...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... 2018 after nearly 33 years in a career that started as a cardiovascular investigator on Space Shuttle flights, spanned the NASA missions to the Russian space station Mir, the Shuttle flight of John Glenn, and Columbia’s last mission, and included...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. For a space-nut like me, it was heaven. The... several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. However, the big items like the LM descent ...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
...-like vehicle, it decided to forego complete reusability and the vehicle as built was largely expendable. The Space Shuttle was therefore as expensive and as risky to operate as the throwaway launchers that preceded it. Recent history seems to have...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
...there will be funding in future. Artist’s concept depicting the Space Shuttle Endeavour with the 60 m (200 ft) antenna of its SAR... a relatively new concept. For example, during the US Space Shuttle era, a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor with a ...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... at the end of 2019. The retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, and American slowness in making replacement Starliner and ... appear until the late 2020s. The retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011 meant a 10-year stream of dollars for Russia from...
