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...
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...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
...1853-4. 4 Bungo MW, and Johnson PC. Cardiovascular examinations and Observations of deconditioning during the Space Shuttle Orbital Flight Test Program. Aviat Space Environ Med. 1983; 54(11):1001-1004. 5 Bungo MW, Charles JB, Riddle J, Roesch J, Wolf...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
...years in low Earth orbit it was collected by the Space Shuttle and returned so the exposed material samples could be ...caused by atomic oxygen attack during a relatively short Space Shuttle mission. Cross-sections revealed the interconnector to have ...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... were pieces of heatshield, materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. For a space-nut like me, it was heaven. The big crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly as tall...
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 ...
