August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... been able to undertake around a hundred missions, for a total programme cost lower in real terms than the Space Shuttle programme. So not only was the Scorpion technically feasible, it was also financially feasible in the context of actual...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... 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...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
...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...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... use of a number of expensive elements of both the rockets and the spacecraft for frequent launches. But the Space Shuttle program failed to achieve this; the cost of the launch and the relative cost of the transportation of the...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... 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...
03 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...
