18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... and echoes this design by taking off vertically and landing horizontally on a runway. However unlike NASA’s space shuttle, the X-37B is solar-powered allowing it to remain in orbit for considerably long periods of time. “We’ve learned a lot from...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
...“Endeavour” as a tribute to the first space shuttle each astronaut had flown aboard. Endeavour also flew the penultimate mission ...of the Space Shuttle Program, launching in May 2011 from the same pad. This...
01 January 2023
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...takes the reader through Sullivan’s training as a Shuttle astronaut, the history of the Large Space Telescope ...hands on the telescope herself: she was left waiting in the Shuttle airlock in case astronauts were needed to help with the Hubble ...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... utility rate, low reliability, and high maintenance cost for reusable launch systems such as the Space Shuttle, where low launch rate limits revenue-generation potential. If a 100 per cent reusable launch vehicle (RLV...
July 2014
Life without weight
Astronaut Karen Nyberg looks through a window in the newly installed Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station (NASA June 2008)
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... in deep space. Human spaceflight has several examples of crewed-robotic vehicle interaction in LEO, such as the Space Shuttle Hubble repair missions. Human-robotic vehicle interactions in deep space present new challenges as they develop new...
