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...
06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
... the funding NASA said it needed to support development of new commercial crew vehicles after the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011. Boeing ran into numerous technical issues, resulting in a major fuel leak during ground testing, an aborted...
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 ...
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...
