28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
...Hubble was carried aloft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Discovery, along with a five-astronaut crew....come. Hubble's longevity can be attributed to five space shuttle servicing missions, from 1993 to 2009, in which...
June 2014
Life without weight
Astronaut Karen Nyberg looks through a window in the newly installed Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station (NASA June 2008)
18 September 2018
First Moon tourist for SpaceX unveiled as Japanese billionaire
... the BFR might look like and its design resembles a much larger version of the now redundant space shuttles, with fins rather than rocket boosters attached to the rear. With a cost for the BFR development...
01 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... given in 2020, about US$3 billion over budget through Artemis 1. The rocket is reusing engines salvaged from the Space Shuttle programme, a feature of the SLS design mandated by members of Congress at the time, including Nelson, who represented...
18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
...’s KSC press site in Florida this week as the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with Orion spacecraft atop arrived at ... and in scenes I had not witnessed since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011, the giant crawler made is way slowly...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... able to design his own vehicles and hardware, which he did to great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases and much more. The Czech artist Ludek Pesek is often...
