April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... of Science from 2018 to 2021). Pedro Duque (left) became the first Spanish astronaut to go into orbit on the Space Shuttle STS-95 Discovery mission in October 1998. He is pictured with colleague Scott Parazynski during their training. The country...
08 August 2018
The most reusable and reliable rocket ever?
.... How will the Block 5 fair after its latest trip to space? Well, after the first flight back in May, contrary to the...its Mars colonising BFR system; a sort of huge interplanetary space shuttle used to ferry people to Mars that Musk unveiled plans for...
02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
... was planning a Dragon cargo mission to the ISS in November of this year. Senator Bill Nelson, whose single space shuttle flight ended 10 days before the Challenger disaster in 1986, issued a statement in which he said that the Falcon...
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 ...
08 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...
