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...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
...-going activities we can discuss power in several ways. According to NASA, the main engines propelling the Space Shuttle to Earth orbit generate a total of 37 million horse-power. Alternatively, we can define power in terms of work/time, as an astro...
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...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... 2018 after nearly 33 years in a career that started as a cardiovascular investigator on Space Shuttle flights, spanned the NASA missions to the Russian space station Mir, the Shuttle flight of John Glenn, and Columbia’s last mission, and included...
