December 2014
A door closes
... (ISS). American officials became so comfortable working with Russia in space that as the US wound down its Space Shuttle programme (finally ended in 2011) and left itself at least temporarily without independent access to the ISS, it was...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... why this international program was based in Australia. Limiting collisions in space Space debris damage to the Space Shuttle Endeavour SERC is implementing a staged approach to limit and ultimately eliminate collisions in space. 1. Slow the rate...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... challenges requires different policy approaches than are represented by the current conventional wisdom... The cockpit of a space shuttle. Investment in space technology is essential for economic growth. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in his New York...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... ability now to go out there and actually do something that positively affects the future of humanity on Earth.” Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and Space Station Astronaut Ed Lu B612 Foundation Founder & CEO The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for...
June 2015
Bringing technology down to earth
... space is linked to sustainability. A common perception is that these two concepts are far apart. On the contrary, a space shuttle or a future lunar base is one of the most durable systems you can imagine; namely a closed ecosystem. Oxygen...
June 2015
Astronauts having a laugh
... annals of space humour. The Capsule Communicator, Bob Crippen, an astronaut himself and later a pilot of the space shuttle, made a routine call to Skylab. “Skylab, this is Houston. Over.” He was shocked to hear a woman’s voice answer in sexy...
