January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... reproduction during short-duration (around two weeks) flight experiments aboard free flying satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS). Longer duration (months and years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments...
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...
September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
... me. Despite being involved in the community long enough to question America’s single-point dependency on the unproven Space Shuttle, much of the influencing factors have always been murky. I knew of Dr Robert Goddard and his pioneering efforts...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... 2013, accumulating 180 days in space. As a mission specialist on STS-124 she rode on was part of a crew on Space Shuttle Discovery playing its part in building the ISS by installing the Japanese laboratory. Then, as a flight engineer for...
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...
