... duration of her flight and didn’t eat during her three days in space. Surviving members of the original Mercury 13 on a Kennedy Space Center visit to witness a Space Shuttle launch - though they were not given the chance to become astronauts and...
... schedule margins, making the predicted launch dates for SLS unreliable. Meanwhile, refurbishing engines from the Space Shuttle programme turned out to be harder, and costlier, than anyone thought. NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) outlined...
...in human spaceflight. The pair of astronauts docked to the space station’s Harmony module at 16:16 pm GMT Sunday. Behnken and...first space shuttle each astronaut had flown aboard. Endeavour also flew the penultimate mission of the Space Shuttle Program...
... – 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...
... 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...
... 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...