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...
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...
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...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. She was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1994 and is a veteran of three Space Shuttle flights from 1998 to 2001, serving as a mission specialist. She holds a PhD in analytical chemistry. Neeraj Gupta is Director...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... generations of the same flies following a return to Earth’s gravity. However, following a seven-day Challenger Space Shuttle flight in 1985, approximately 25 percent of embryos failed to develop into adult specimens, despite increasing in ovicell...
