02 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... – it is particularly risk averse when actual human lives are involved. Berger blamed Washington’s complacent treatment of the Space Shuttle program for our collective current woes: @carlosfugazi @BadAstronomer I blame DC. Knew for literally decades...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... yesterday – the first commercial flight to do so from Kennedy’s historic pad since it was last used for the Space Shuttle program almost six years ago. Following liftoff on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, a substantial amount of research equipment...
18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... and echoes this design by taking off vertically and landing horizontally on a runway. However unlike NASA’s space shuttle, the X-37B is solar-powered allowing it to remain in orbit for considerably long periods of time. “We’ve learned a lot from...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
...turned the lights back on and finished their work. Another ‘incident’ occurred on 21 October 1995 on board US Space Shuttle Columbia during its STS-73 mission. “We have an unidentified flying object”, joked mission specialist Catherine ‘Cady’ Coleman...
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... board, however. A reusable rocket is planned, building on advances made in the past few decades. In the 1970s, the Space Shuttle developers considered the repeat use of a vehicle to reduce the cost of transportation. The orbiter and solid rocket...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
.... Walker was born in Houston and began her career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1987 as a robotics flight controller for the space shuttle with Rockwell Space Operations Co. She became a NASA employee in 1995, working on robotics and...
