19 August 2015
The ISS and sustainability: new life for spare shuttle parts as NASA raids museums?
... recycling? As New Scientist reports, NASA is scouring museums in order to potentially repurpose some spare space shuttle parts for the International Space Station. NASA’s funding troubles were recently highlight when it bought nearly half a billion...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... to staff late on Wednesday. Also targeted in the reshuffle is Bill Hill, who played a key role during the Space Shuttle Program. Hill, who previously served as the deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development, will now...
29 March 2018
Forever Young: a life of adventure in air and space
... career, his Gemini missions, his Apollo missions and his Space Shuttle missions (two in each spacecraft). In fact, he is... in four different spacecraft types (Gemini, Apollo CSM and LM, and Shuttle) and to have driven a lunar rover on the Moon! Not ...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... been able to undertake around a hundred missions, for a total programme cost lower in real terms than the Space Shuttle programme. So not only was the Scorpion technically feasible, it was also financially feasible in the context of actual...
07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
.... The launch attracted thousands of sightseers, crowds not seen since NASA's last space shuttle flight seven years ago. Scores of journalists packed the space centre to witness not only the launch but also the return to land...
June 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... use of a number of expensive elements of both the rockets and the spacecraft for frequent launches. But the Space Shuttle program failed to achieve this; the cost of the launch and the relative cost of the transportation of the...
