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...
June 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...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... can be separated in a few hours. Each ship lands independently or enters orbit around the planet, where it is unloaded by a shuttle plying between the planet and orbit. Effective protection of the crew from radiation makes it possible to return...
23 October 2019
Landing site sought for UN's Dream Chaser mission
... 6 to 8 G's to return science cargo to Earth. Dream Chasers, on the other hand, will glide home like NASA's Space Shuttles did - at up to 1.5 G's, much like a normal aircraft landing and desirable to gently and quickly get science experiments back...
