July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... and Canada signed an agreement for Canada to develop a robotic arm for the US Space Shuttle. Canadarm on Space Shuttle mission STS-2 in November 1981. The Space Shuttle arm became a Canadian government programme, led by the National Research Council...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
Seven years after the space shuttle completed its final flight, the first US astronauts to blast ...locations with SpaceX flying from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center – the same one used by the shuttles and the Saturn 5 moon rockets. Boeing on the ...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
...’s a group of people that no-one knew 15 years ago, who no-one knew would be building a replacement for the Space Shuttle - one that now flies”. This represents what we think of as the ‘American dream’; it’s integral to our thinking process...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... present for the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of Starliner in December. Starliner itself is important because, after NASA’s Space Shuttle was decommissioned there were no options to launch American astronauts into orbit from US soil for nearly a decade...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... NASA’s team of talented seamstresses and textile technicians kept astronauts alive in the cold void of space during the Apollo and Space Shuttle eras by ‘dressing’ both astronauts and spacecraft and looks at the impact of new technical textile...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... American astronauts “including the first woman” on the Moon by 2024. Amanda Miller analyses progress so far. The Space Shuttles had retired and NASA’s first follow-on programme to revive human spaceflight, the Constellation Program (CxP), had...
