July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... Services (CRS) programme, was designed to fill the gap in orbital transportation following the retirement of the Space Shuttle. Under this programme, NASA provided funding and technical support, resulting in the development of private cargo supply...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...the outsize cargoes. Three sites built long, adjacent shuttle runways: Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg and Baikonur. Structures..., an imitative version of which was also built at the shuttle’s other base of Vandenberg, California, although it has never been...
03 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... program for our collective current woes: @carlosfugazi @BadAstronomer I blame DC. Knew for literally decades of shuttles eventual end but utterly failed to plan a timely replacement — Eric Berger (@chronsciguy) July 3, 2015 Sunday, meanwhile, is ...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
...’s historic pad since it was last used for the Space Shuttle program almost six years ago. Following liftoff on the SpaceX Falcon... without manned launch capabilities since 2011 when the Space Shuttle program ended, with a 20-year lease under its belt...
07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
...launched rockets that carried astronauts to the Moon and Space Shuttle crews into Earth orbit a big, new American rocket... of sightseers, crowds not seen since NASA's last space shuttle flight seven years ago. Scores of journalists packed the space...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
...deputy, Ken Bowersox, a space station astronaut and five-flight shuttle veteran take over the role on an acting basis. Gerstenmaier ... Hill, who played a key role during the Space Shuttle Program. Hill, who previously served as the deputy associate...
