September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried out by world governments. Many do not realise that ...
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...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... resources and security implications. Christa McAuliffe, the American teacher aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger when it was lost in January 1986, poignantly said: “Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for...
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...
26 February 2018
Into the Black
...Thirty-five years after the first launch of the Space Shuttle in April 1981, it must be hard to ... involves the issue of thermal tile delamination and the concern that this first Shuttle would burn up on re-entry. ‘To save Columbia’, states the book’s ...
16 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
... of twenty-first-century generations”. As a museum employee, the author is well in tune with the bitter-sweet concept of ‘Space Shuttle as museum exhibit’ and those who have seen one on display will sympathise. Visitors experience at close quarters...
