12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
... of Human and Robotic Exploration David Parker. “And of course, we are in the process of recruiting a new class of ESA astronauts as we look to the future of exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, to the Moon and eventually Mars. “I’m delighted to see...
01 January 2023
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...outer skin left by the gloved hands of the astronauts who conducted the in-orbit maintenance programme. Although Sullivan...: she was left waiting in the Shuttle airlock in case astronauts were needed to help with the Hubble deployment in 1990. The...
16 January 2024
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...outer skin left by the gloved hands of the astronauts who conducted the in-orbit maintenance programme. Although Sullivan...: she was left waiting in the Shuttle airlock in case astronauts were needed to help with the Hubble deployment in 1990. The...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
...’s rendering of Dream Chaser atop a ULA Atlas V rocket on Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Astronautics It’s also different because we actually own this vehicle. SNC has invested heavily in Dream Chaser and, in return...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
...the planetary science community. During the Apollo programme, astronauts returned about 381 kg of lunar regolith to Earth ...value and the potential resources that could be used to support astronauts on the surface. Once there is a regular flow of ...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
...GPS, gawp as rockets power into the cosmos and admire the astronauts and the work they do, perhaps we should also ask the ...the overall Skylon vehicle, leaving in 2013 to form Hempsell Astronautics Limited. He is a Fellow and past President of the...
