26 February 2018
Into the Black
...the issue of thermal tile delamination and the concern that this first Shuttle would burn up on re-entry. ‘To save Columbia’, states the...Not that the NRO could do anything to save the Shuttle and its astronauts anyway - short of launching a previously...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
...same reliable engines that launched more than 100 space shuttle missions have been modified to be even more powerful...capabilities, and experience of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, using 16 existing RS-25 shuttle engines for the first four SLS missions....
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
...selected as an astronaut in 2004. He first launched aboard space shuttle Endeavour for a visit to the station on the STS-126 mission...Space Telescope servicing mission, in 2009. McArthur operated the shuttle’s robotic arm over the course of the 12 days...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... rockets and the spacecraft for frequent launches. But the Space Shuttle program failed to achieve this; the cost of the launch...of the payload actually grew: the operational costs of one shuttle launch cost the US around $450 million.1 A Russian ...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... steps on a celestial body other than Earth. Eileen Collins became the first female to pilot the Space Shuttle. Ed Dwight - the first African-American -astronaut trainee (selected by the Kennedy administration despite open discrimination - continued...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
..., then a typical mission would have cost around $1.6 billion (including system acquisition cost recovery), comparable to a Space Shuttle mission. With these assumptions the total Scorpion programme would have been able to undertake around a hundred...
