... As the book’s title suggests, it is ultimately a celebration of the test pilots whose day-to-day work involves putting their lives on the line. In... by Mark Stucky in one of the early tests of SpaceShipTwo, but the story becomes especially voyeuristic...
... on 26 March 2019 and has been given its name by the IAU’s Minor Planet Center. Those in the test have been given the following unfolding circumstances in order to formulate a plan to minimise casualties and to prepare for...
... Apollo spacecraft for an historic political meeting in orbit at the height of the Cold War. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), which took place in 1975, was a surprise to many at the time, but presaged the cooperative...
...are not found naturally on Earth. In order to test instruments or analyse rover capabilities for future missions, these... have been used for plant growth experiments, radiation shielding tests and 3D printing capabilities. A building block weighing 1.5...
... from Airbus Defence and Space, successfully released the test masses (nicknamed Jake and Elwood) inside the spacecraft...spacecraft is then forced to follow this “drag-free” test mass. The laser interferometers measure the relative position and ...
...in a wide variety of real-world flight conditions. These preliminary test flights have clearly done their job, as VSS Unity took to... the skies for 1hr 20 minutes in its first gliding test flight and achieved a maximum speed of approximately Mach 0.6. ...