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...
19 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...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), which is about six times smaller than the final planned space shuttle, spent a little less than 13 minutes in flight before landing. Some 600 scientists at ISRO have been working...
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...
