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...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
...now the Artemis generation,” said NASA administrator and former Space Shuttle astronaut Bill Nelson. “We were in the Apollo generation. ... (slightly larger than those used on NASA's Space Shuttle) and originally part of Constellation's Ares 1 rocket ...
20 May 2022
Science Fiction
... to Hidden Figures, and real space actors from NASA to Elon Musk. The cultural impact of the Space Shuttle is also covered, but the ‘overview’ nature of the series allows no room for analysis. For example, Vint...
