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 ...
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...
