06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
... a watchword for delays during the US Space Shuttle programme and have also caused potentially life-threatening ... new commercial crew vehicles after the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011. Boeing ran into numerous technical issues, resulting in...
29 March 2018
Forever Young: a life of adventure in air and space
...career, his Gemini missions, his Apollo missions and his Space Shuttle missions (two in each spacecraft). In fact, he is... in four different spacecraft types (Gemini, Apollo CSM and LM, and Shuttle) and to have driven a lunar rover on the Moon! Not ...
29 March 2018
NASA Kennedy Space Center
...and the various phases of manned space exploration up to the Shuttle and the ISS. A final chapter looks at deep space ..., is that with all the glossy coffee-table books on the Shuttle, the Hubble and other aspects of spaceflight, a similar volume on...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
...Houston in 1987 as a robotics flight controller for the space shuttle with Rockwell Space Operations Co. She became a NASA employee in...will be the third spaceflight for Noguchi, who was a space shuttle crew member on the STS-114 mission in 2005 and a ...
28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
...alone will fuel future astronomy research for generations to come. Hubble's longevity can be attributed to five space shuttle servicing missions, from 1993 to 2009, in which astronauts upgraded the telescope with advanced instruments, new electronics...
18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... and echoes this design by taking off vertically and landing horizontally on a runway. However unlike NASA’s space shuttle, the X-37B is solar-powered allowing it to remain in orbit for considerably long periods of time. “We’ve learned a lot from...
