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...
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...
