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 ...
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)
