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)
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... at NASA. NASA mentors Shortly after graduating from college I started a job at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) working with the NASA Space Shuttle team. This group of people loved the work they were doing, believed in the...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... since. In the 1970s, the early designs of the US Space Shuttle were indeed fully reusable, but this project was much larger (with... and the vehicle as built was largely expendable. The Space Shuttle was therefore as expensive and as risky to operate ...
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...
