26 February 2018
After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
... in the book. “I am sure that many people will not agree with my assessment of the Nixon space heritage, especially with respect to the space shuttle”, says the author, but rightly makes no apology. After a career devoted to the programme...
13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
...landing point. The rolls are similar to maneuvers used by re-entering space shuttles to bleed off speed. “It will need to do these banking ...NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover landing system and the space shuttle’s drag chutes. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... Right Stuff (Warner Brothers, 1983) unmistakeably reflected the US government and media portrayal of early space as ‘peaceful purposes’. The Space Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Full spectrum...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “The same reliable engines that launched more than 100 space shuttle missions have been modified to be even more powerful to launch the next astronauts who will set foot on ...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... of suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles (sRLVs) currently being developed in the United States. References 1 “Mathematica Economic Analysis of Space Shuttle System” NASA-CR-129570 URL: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730005253...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
...station. Born in Killeen, Texas, and raised in Atlanta, Kimbrough was selected as an astronaut in 2004. He first launched aboard space shuttle Endeavour for a visit to the station on the STS-126 mission in 2008, then aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft...
