03 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...
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...
20 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...
