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May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
... colleagues in training for post-splashdown action. ISS-57 crew members Aleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague using a Space Station simulator. ISS experience The International Space Station (ISS) community is an international crew, where people of different nationalities, with their own...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...and investing in commercialising aged or under-utilised assets. Facilities that once launched NASA’s Apollo and Space Shuttle missions are now launching commercial rockets. The state’s spaceport system is a living example of ...Processing Facilities (OPF) of NASA that were used to turnaround and process the Space Shuttle after landing for subsequent re-flight to space. Space Florida secured a long-term property agreement for the first of these, OPF ...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... Corp in 2000, participating in two missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008 and 2013, accumulating 180 days in space. As a mission specialist on STS-124 she rode on was part of a crew on Space Shuttle Discovery playing its part in building the ISS...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... launch failures. The rocket equation for chemical rockets results in only a small payload fraction. The space shuttle carried only one train-wagon-equivalent payload to LEO, around 27.5 metric tons (mt), or 1.4 percent... Kansas City team in NASA’s Power Beaming challenge. He is a founding member and director of ISEC, an organisation furthering Space Elevator related research, including collaboration with the Lake Matthew Team on the Mars...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... as “quite surreal” and very different. To date, the only known ‘mass infection’ in space occurred during the 1968 Apollo 7 mission. All three crew members developed respiratory infections and sinus congestion, and the artificial cabin pressure...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
...15 different countries and five international space agencies. The ISS is the best example of how technically, politically, socially, peacefully and successfully we should also be living like crew members together here on Spaceship Earth. ...international cooperation. Crew members from all of our partner countries have been travelling to and from the ISS together for the past 20 years – over half that time in parallel with Space Shuttle flights, and...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...(Warner Brothers, 1983) unmistakeably reflected the US government and media portrayal of early space as ‘peaceful purposes’. The Space Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Full spectrum...problem by part-funding its system, Galileo, through the European Union, so that the military of its member states could access the military precision level by virtue of their EU membership, not ESA, an arrangement that...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
...though, one of the primary ways we manage this precious resource in space is to recycle water from every available source, including crew members’ own urine and sweat. Nicole Stott with the first painting completed...working as a crewmember on both the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle, a personal highlight was painting the first watercolour in space. She is co-founder of the Space for Art Foundation, uniting a planetary community of...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried out by world governments. Many do not ... this arena. NASA has had great success commercialising the International Space Station (ISS) resupply missions and will soon benefit from commercial crew transportation to the ISS. This bill continues this trend by supporting...
