12 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...
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...
19 May 2022
Science Fiction
... or profession. There are, however, plenty of mentions of space movies, from Star Trek to Hidden Figures, and real space actors from NASA to Elon Musk. The cultural impact of the Space Shuttle is also covered, but the ‘overview’ nature of the...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... to work, but the atmosphere is also too thin for either the parachutes of Apollo or the wings of the space shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” to the Martian surface, which included a heat shield, parachutes...
