15 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
...white with a small colour insert. Published six years after the final Shuttle mission in a 30-year-long programme, the book is a timely ...well in tune with the bitter-sweet concept of ‘Space Shuttle as museum exhibit’ and those who have seen one on ...
15 January 2022
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31
... in which I suggested “that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle”, as the next space-related Lego model. Little did I know it...works! In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Shuttle’s first launch in 1981, Lego released this incredible ...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... Canadarm’s flexibility – including some capabilities that the Space Shuttle programme never knew it needed. All this set the precedent... CSA astronaut Steve MacLean serving as the Shuttle’s CAPCOM in the Shuttle Control Room. On the ISS side, Danielle...
July 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... to streamline the outer hull. In fact, Dream Chaser has a number of interesting design features. Unlike the Space Shuttle, which could not be approached immediately after landing (because gases had to be vented), access is immediate. As soon as the...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
...Complex 39 and, thereafter, for the first eight Space Shuttle missions. The vehicle itself is currently on display at... Starliner itself is important because, after NASA’s Space Shuttle was decommissioned there were no options to launch American ...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... designed for Constellation. One of those alternatives was to design a new rocket incorporating technology from the Space Shuttle programme and subsequently Congress directed NASA to build the SLS by leveraging legacy systems and contracts from...
