April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... former Orbital Processing Facilities (OPF) of NASA that were used to turnaround and process the Space Shuttle after landing for subsequent re-flight to space. Space Florida secured a long-term property agreement for the first of these, OPF 1, and...
June 2018
Striding through space
...segment. In normal flight operations, both eyes looked straight ahead through the ‘plano’ portion of the spectacles.” Shuttle launch Space Shuttle Challenger was launched on mission STS-41B on 3 February 1984 under the command of Vance Brand, veteran...
29 March 2021
Russia to develop new uncrewed spaceplane
.... The Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s as a response to the United States Space Shuttle programme. The project was downsized and eventually cancelled in the 90s, but at the time it was the...
12 December 2016
John Glenn; one of NASA's original 'Mercury 7' astronauts dies aged 95
... of Ohio – a role in which he pursued for 25 years. John Glenn became the oldest person to fly in space on his second flight, aboard space shuttle Discovery. Image: NASA Speaking yesterday of the news, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said; “Today...
15 June 2020
Space Shuttle A Photographic Journey
... spacecraft”. From the cover design - which features a top view of the Orbiter for the ‘A’ of Space - the iconic nature of the Space Shuttle is evident: from its symmetrical stance on the pad to its delta-wing silhouette gliding to a landing...
16 January 2022
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31
Regular readers of ROOM may remember my article on “Lego’s replica space programme” [issue #24, 2020], in which I suggested “that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle”, as the next space-related Lego model. Little did I know it was already ...
