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 ...
16 January 2024
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 ...
01 April 2025
Florida’s Space Coast
...launching point for Apollo lunar exploration and Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station. Those ...book concludes with what the author terms the “privatization of the Shuttle” in 1997, and thereby misses the developments of the early...
23 March 2026
SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier
... history of the space race and a review of Space Shuttle accidents, the author finally introduces SpaceX. Even then, however...leads with Robert Zubrin’s call to settle Mars and references the Shuttle, DC-X and VentureStar. Then we come to a chapter on ...
