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...
February 2016
Space for Art
...delighted” that she had become the first astronaut of the Space Shuttle/Space Station era to choose art as her next step in ... Stott during her EVA in 2009 on the STS-128 Space Shuttle mission in support of assembly of the International Space Station I...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
...and they weren’t in love with it! We had 30 years of Shuttle and I was privileged to be there from the very beginning. The... Space Center employees and contractors with the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the background after its final spaceflight ended...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...thin for either the parachutes of Apollo or the wings of the Space Shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ to ... space. When astronauts launched from Earth on the Space Shuttle, they had the support of a large and capable team...
22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
...19. “If you look at pictures of the inside of the Space Shuttle, you see a lot of added duct-tape initiatives that were ... a new fleet of government-owned spacecraft like the Space Shuttles. The agency granted SpaceX the go-ahead in 2014 to build...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicles as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Following the retirement of the shuttle, US astronauts have been hitching a ride to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which lifts...
