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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
July 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)
