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...
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...
14 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...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... present for the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of Starliner in December. Starliner itself is important because, after NASA’s Space Shuttle was decommissioned there were no options to launch American astronauts into orbit from US soil for nearly a decade...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
Seven years after the space shuttle completed its final flight, the first US astronauts to blast ...locations with SpaceX flying from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center – the same one used by the shuttles and the Saturn 5 moon rockets. Boeing on the ...
