26 February 2018
After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
...end of the Apollo era to the ‘What Next?’ Space Shuttle era with some damning analysis on the way. “The space... of the Nixon space heritage, especially with respect to the space shuttle”, says the author, but rightly makes no apology. After a career...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...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... into space. When astronauts launched from Earth on the shuttle, they had the support of a large and capable team...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...is about six times smaller than the final planned space shuttle, spent a little less than 13 minutes in flight before.... Some 600 scientists at ISRO have been working on the agency’s shuttle programme for a decade now and it is likely to be another ...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. She was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1994 and is a veteran of three Space Shuttle flights from 1998 to 2001, serving as a mission specialist. She holds a PhD in analytical chemistry. Neeraj Gupta is Director...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... then gave birth to healthy offspring on Earth. Later experiments on the spermatozoa of sea urchins, carried out as part of Shuttle missions STS-81 in January 1997 and STS-84 in May 1997, showed an increase in their motor activity, while experiments...
05 May 2021
Dream Chaser cleared for Florida runway landing from 2022
... spaceplane will return to the space center's former space shuttle landing strip. “This is a monumental step for both...to operate like humanity's first reusable spacecraft, NASA’s space shuttle, which flew 135 missions over a 30 year period, Dream...
