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...
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...
20 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...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
...now the Artemis generation,” said NASA administrator and former Space Shuttle astronaut Bill Nelson. “We were in the Apollo generation... (slightly larger than those used on NASA's Space Shuttle) and originally part of Constellation's Ares 1 rocket...
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...
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...
