June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... on biomedical research and not do everything all in one place. Charlie Bolden addresses Kennedy Space Center employees and contractors with the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the background after its final spaceflight ended the 30-year programme in July...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
...astronauts. Hurley, who was the pilot on Atlantis, the very last space shuttle to make an outing, will be in charge of the launch,... and a control stick - as was the case for the space shuttle. It is unclear at the moment how long Behnken and Hurley...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... and I am so thankful to all of the photographers who are chronicling the magnificent beauty of spaceflight. To me, this picture of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s roll to the launch pad for her final flight is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. With...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... rockets results in only a small payload fraction. The space shuttle carried only one train-wagon-equivalent payload to LEO, ...a speck of paint almost taking out the window of the space shuttle! The risks of debris, large and small, and the possible...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... amount of oxygen and hydrogen available in the exposed lunar crust could be enough to power the equivalent of a daily Space Shuttle launch for 22,000 years, supporting thousands of people living off-Earth. Eliminating the expense required to lift...
May 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...in the mid-1970s, when the early designs of the Space Shuttle were indeed fully reusable. However, President Nixon imposed a ... NASA opted to take the former course. The resulting Shuttle was mostly expendable and therefore just as expensive and risky...
