March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... to grab the satellite with their own hands, and make history by performing the first three-man spacewalk. On this occasion the satellite was fitted with a new boost motor whilst still in orbit before being...
June 2015
Astronauts having a laugh
... Wendt, had jacked up his car and put it on the bricks. Astronaut Owen Garriott, seen here during a spacewalk outside Skylab, persuaded NASA Mission Control that he’d smuggled his wife onboard the space station. Hello...
February 2016
Space for Art
In 2015, after what I consider to be 28 incredible years with NASA, I ‘retired’. I look back on that time and I really have to pinch myself that I had the opportunity to do such amazing stuff and work with such remarkable people. The first painting ...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... another female astronaut into space until 1982 when Svetlana Savitzskaya became the first woman to make a spacewalk. All in all, the early years of women in space had much less to do with women’s rights than with...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... the MARES machine in Europe’s Columbus space laboratory. ESA astronaut Tim Peake during his 4 hour 43 minute spacewalk to replace a failed power regulator and install cabling. His actions brought about a re-thinking of the design philosophy...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... is the construction of the International Space Station (ISS), which involved over 35 Space Shuttle launches and 160 spacewalks spanning 1,061 hours. The station is the size of a football field weighing over 400,000 kg and encompassing...
