04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
...in a similar way that the original reusable Space Shuttle used to do. The covert space plane is due to take off on 7...a Falcon 9 rocket, showing that SpaceX is surpassing its private space company roots to multitask as a military launch provider too - ...
20 September 2021
SpaceX all-civilian crew completes historic orbital mission
... Center, where ships retrieved the crew for a brief helicopter flight to the former space shuttle landing facility. The heat shield of the capsule underwent extreme heat up to 3,500 degrees F during reentry. "Dragon ...
07 January 2023
The Light of Earth: reflections on a life in space
...” opinions on the Apollo lunar programme and the people involved, as well as “hard-hitting reflections” on the US Space Shuttle programme. This includes a sharing of views on the human and sometimes tragic side of spaceflight, notably his personal...
05 February 2018
Launch fever grips Florida as SpaceX prepares for game-changer mission
...- the last big launch from KSC was the final Space Shuttle mission - launch fever has come again to this part ...which means it could launch heavier and more complex cargo to space. Once operational, SpaceX could start launching big national security ...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... as the beginning of a new era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts into low Earth orbit - an arrangement that has been in place since NASA's Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011.
04 May 2021
New NASA Administrator sworn in
... Florida’s 9th and 11th districts in the US House of Representatives. While chair of the House space subcommittee, Nelson flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia as a payload specialist on the STS-61C mission in 1986, where he conducted 12 medical...
