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...
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 ...
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...
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...
29 August 2022
Engine problem leads to scrub of SLS Artemis 1 mission
... they are bled (brought up to operating temperature) pre-launch is different for SLS compared to the Shuttle. The RS-25 powered the Space Shuttle for over three decades and completed 135 missions. It is one of the most tested large rocket...
