January 2016
Space for Art
... to have: working up close with the Space Shuttle and Space Station hardware, getting it ready to fly in space, flying on the Shuttle Training Aircraft helping train astronaut pilots to land the Space Shuttle and ultimately (by some act of God) being...
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...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... to work, but the atmosphere is also too thin for either the parachutes of Apollo or the wings of the Space Shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ to the Martian surface, which included a heat shield, parachutes...
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...
