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...
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
..., increase abundance, and open the Solar System. The Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS) were not, in themselves, our purpose. That comes later. The Space Shuttle and the ISS provided early opportunities to explore commercial...
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, ...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
...Station (ISS) in 2008 and 2013, accumulating 180 days in space. As a mission specialist on STS-124 she rode on was part of a crew on Space Shuttle Discovery playing its part in building the ISS by installing the Japanese laboratory. Then, as a flight...
