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...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
...to provide a better understanding of Duchene Muscular Dystrophy. The ISS and the Space Shuttle have been crucial in providing a backdrop for successful discoveries in space and microgravity research connected to life sciences It was found that as the...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... over multiple years, on-orbit assembly would likely provide significant cost savings. The International Space Station and the docked Space Shuttle Endeavour in May 2011 at the end of the main construction phase in LEO. For Earth science...
