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...
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...
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...
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...
