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...
June 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...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... aboard free flying satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS). Longer duration (months...would nominally launch as a co-manifested payload on the NASA Space Launch System (SLS) to a lunar distant retrograde orbit, ...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...near the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and in Florida, within view of Space Shuttles leaving the planet, I developed an early appreciation for space exploration. In addition to my love of the cosmos, and perhaps related to my obsession with...
September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
... for me. Despite being involved in the community long enough to question America’s single-point dependency on the unproven Space Shuttle, much of the influencing factors have always been murky. I knew of Dr Robert Goddard and his pioneering efforts...
