February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... at NASA. NASA mentors Shortly after graduating from college I started a job at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) working with the NASA Space Shuttle team. This group of people loved the work they were doing, believed in the...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
...1853-4. 4 Bungo MW, and Johnson PC. Cardiovascular examinations and Observations of deconditioning during the Space Shuttle Orbital Flight Test Program. Aviat Space Environ Med. 1983; 54(11):1001-1004. 5 Bungo MW, Charles JB, Riddle J, Roesch J, Wolf...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
...years in low Earth orbit it was collected by the Space Shuttle and returned so the exposed material samples could be ...caused by atomic oxygen attack during a relatively short Space Shuttle mission. Cross-sections revealed the interconnector to have ...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... since. In the 1970s, the early designs of the US Space Shuttle were indeed fully reusable, but this project was much larger (with... and the vehicle as built was largely expendable. The Space Shuttle was therefore as expensive and as risky to operate ...
18 September 2018
First Moon tourist for SpaceX unveiled as Japanese billionaire
... the BFR might look like and its design resembles a much larger version of the now redundant space shuttles, with fins rather than rocket boosters attached to the rear. With a cost for the BFR development...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... able to design his own vehicles and hardware, which he did to great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases and much more. The Czech artist Ludek Pesek is often...
