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...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... schedule margins, making the predicted launch dates for SLS unreliable. Meanwhile, refurbishing engines from the Space Shuttle programme turned out to be harder, and costlier, than anyone thought. NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) outlined...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
...in human spaceflight. The pair of astronauts docked to the space station’s Harmony module at 16:16 pm GMT Sunday. Behnken and...first space shuttle each astronaut had flown aboard. Endeavour also flew the penultimate mission of the Space Shuttle Program...
02 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... – it is particularly risk averse when actual human lives are involved. Berger blamed Washington’s complacent treatment of the Space Shuttle program for our collective current woes: @carlosfugazi @BadAstronomer I blame DC. Knew for literally decades...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... yesterday – the first commercial flight to do so from Kennedy’s historic pad since it was last used for the Space Shuttle program almost six years ago. Following liftoff on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, a substantial amount of research equipment...
18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... and echoes this design by taking off vertically and landing horizontally on a runway. However unlike NASA’s space shuttle, the X-37B is solar-powered allowing it to remain in orbit for considerably long periods of time. “We’ve learned a lot from...
