02 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
