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...
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)
