August 2021
Born to juggle in space
... friends. Growing up near the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and in Florida, within view of Space Shuttles leaving the planet, I developed an early appreciation for space exploration. In addition to my love of the cosmos, and perhaps...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... defined by vast commercial resources and security implications. Christa McAuliffe, the American teacher aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger when it was lost in January 1986, poignantly said: “Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few...
20 August 2015
The ISS and sustainability: new life for spare shuttle parts as NASA raids museums?
... the virtues of recycling? As New Scientist reports, NASA is scouring museums in order to potentially repurpose some spare space shuttle parts for the International Space Station. NASA’s funding troubles were recently highlight when it bought nearly...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... announced that its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 (OTV-5) successfully landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility, having spent 780 days in space conducting on-orbit experiments. The lengthy mission meant that...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... SLS Block 1 internal configuration uses a Space Shuttle-heritage, flightproven propulsion system that’s been upgraded and... four RS-25 engines, which previously served as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), built by Aerojet Rocketdyne. These human...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... assessment of the technical and organizational causes of the Columbia accident - concluded that NASA’s organization for the Shuttle program combined, among other things, all authority and responsibility for schedule, cost, safety and technical...
