15 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
...in the broader history of spaceflight. Subtitled ‘Redefining Humanity’s Purpose in Space’, it is written by the Chair of the history department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, who is better-placed to comment than most. As the author...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... police’ exist with zero tolerance for the unauthorised possession of a controlled space resource The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a space museum that displays space artefacts, many of which are on loan from NASA. Following the resignation...
20 April 2018
Jim Bridenstine confirmed as new NASA Administrator
... 17,000 staff; Bridenstine on the other hand is a former Navy pilot who once ran the Air and Space Museum in Tulsa - where he reportedly ran the museum into a financial loss. Consequently, Bridenstine’s lack of technical background and professional...
30 September 2019
Cosmic Discovery: the Search, Scope and Heritage of Astronomy
... backyard. So why republish now? The author – astronomy professor at Cornell and director of Washington’s National Air and Space Museum – tackles the question head on in his preface to this new edition. The main reason is, he says, that many...
18 June 2019
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece
...describe a well-known story of collaboration, but later ones depict a lawsuit filed by Ordway on behalf of an international space museum he co-founded (all part of a misunderstanding about non-profit and for-profit companies). Speculating that Ordway...
June 2019
A reluctant American hero
... in 1966, when the first ever spacecraft docking in space with another vehicle was accomplished with an Agena target –... Apollo 40th anniversary celebration held at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC on 20 July 2009. Practical legacy The ...
