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...
02 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
... at the time and using components derived from the Space Shuttle. The development programme to build the first SLS is...serve as a payload specialist doing medical experiments aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. He said his experience looking down on the...
19 August 2015
The ISS and sustainability: new life for spare shuttle parts as NASA raids museums?
... recycling? As New Scientist reports, NASA is scouring museums in order to potentially repurpose some spare space shuttle parts for the International Space Station. NASA’s funding troubles were recently highlight when it bought nearly half a billion...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... to staff late on Wednesday. Also targeted in the reshuffle is Bill Hill, who played a key role during the Space Shuttle Program. Hill, who previously served as the deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development, will now...
23 October 2019
Landing site sought for UN's Dream Chaser mission
... Chasers, on the other hand, will glide home like NASA's Space Shuttles did - at up to 1.5 G's, much like a normal aircraft... Chasers at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Florida where the Space Shuttles landed, but SNC...
29 March 2018
Forever Young: a life of adventure in air and space
... career, his Gemini missions, his Apollo missions and his Space Shuttle missions (two in each spacecraft). In fact, he is... in four different spacecraft types (Gemini, Apollo CSM and LM, and Shuttle) and to have driven a lunar rover on the Moon! Not ...
