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...
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...
05 May 2021
Dream Chaser cleared for Florida runway landing from 2022
... land here at this very runway," she said. Designed to operate like humanity's first reusable spacecraft, NASA’s space shuttle, which flew 135 missions over a 30 year period, Dream Chaser is just over nine metres (30 feet) long...
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...
