20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... 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...
01 April 2025
Florida’s Space Coast
...point for Apollo lunar exploration and Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station. Those who have visited... concludes with what the author terms the “privatization of the Shuttle” in 1997, and thereby misses the developments of the early...
18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... 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...
23 March 2026
SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier
... a short thesis on Fukuyama’s declared “end of history” after the Cold War, a potted history of the space race and a review of Space Shuttle accidents, the author finally introduces SpaceX. Even then, however, his chapter leads with Robert...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
...turned the lights back on and finished their work. Another ‘incident’ occurred on 21 October 1995 on board US Space Shuttle Columbia during its STS-73 mission. “We have an unidentified flying object”, joked mission specialist Catherine ‘Cady’ Coleman...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
.... Walker was born in Houston and began her career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1987 as a robotics flight controller for the space shuttle with Rockwell Space Operations Co. She became a NASA employee in 1995, working on robotics and...
