February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... The first elevator may be as expensive as the Space Shuttle but its successful construction would represent a paradigm shift and... results in only a small payload fraction. The space shuttle carried only one train-wagon-equivalent payload to LEO, ...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... I am so thankful to all of the photographers who are chronicling the magnificent beauty of spaceflight. To me, this picture of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s roll to the launch pad for her final flight is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. With...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
.... Hurley, who was the pilot on Atlantis, the very last space shuttle to make an outing, will be in charge of the launch, landing...and a control stick - as was the case for the space shuttle. It is unclear at the moment how long Behnken and Hurley ...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...the mid-1970s, when the early designs of the Space Shuttle were indeed fully reusable. However, President Nixon imposed a...that NASA opted to take the former course. The resulting Shuttle was mostly expendable and therefore just as expensive and risky ...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... be about to change. In 2010, with the costly Space Shuttle about to be retired, the dream of future human explorers returning...be enough to power the equivalent of a daily Space Shuttle launch for 22,000 years, supporting thousands of people living...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... of the space race 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...
