07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
.... The launch attracted thousands of sightseers, crowds not seen since NASA's last space shuttle flight seven years ago. Scores of journalists packed the space centre to witness not only the launch but also the return to land...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... been able to undertake around a hundred missions, for a total programme cost lower in real terms than the Space Shuttle programme. So not only was the Scorpion technically feasible, it was also financially feasible in the context of actual...
June 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... use of a number of expensive elements of both the rockets and the spacecraft for frequent launches. But the Space Shuttle program failed to achieve this; the cost of the launch and the relative cost of the transportation of the...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... duration of her flight and didn’t eat during her three days in space. Surviving members of the original Mercury 13 on a Kennedy Space Center visit to witness a Space Shuttle launch - though they were not given the chance to become astronauts and...
02 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... – it is particularly risk averse when actual human lives are involved. Berger blamed Washington’s complacent treatment of the Space Shuttle program for our collective current woes: @carlosfugazi @BadAstronomer I blame DC. Knew for literally decades...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... schedule margins, making the predicted launch dates for SLS unreliable. Meanwhile, refurbishing engines from the Space Shuttle programme turned out to be harder, and costlier, than anyone thought. NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) outlined...
