February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... orbit then see future use as a form of ‘orbital museum’ in which other spacecraft could be placed to form a collection...‘Preserving our space heritage’ by Stuart Eves]. Such an orbital museum would come with enormous costs, but it is not impossible ...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
...on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s One World Connected exhibition. Shaping the future Terran Orbital... was inducted into the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Terran Orbital made history again in May with the ...
20 April 2018
Jim Bridenstine confirmed as new NASA Administrator
... on the other hand is a former Navy pilot who once ran the Air and Space Museum in Tulsa - where he reportedly ran the museum into a financial loss. Consequently, Bridenstine’s lack of technical background and professional space experience...
01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
... 11, this highly illustrated volume is published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This fact alone gives a firm...”. It is designed to accompany an exhibition at the museum, which also included videos and astronomical instruments, but this...
01 January 2020
Virginia Air & Space Center
...Mars. As far as real space hardware is concerned, the museum also displays the Mercury 14 capsule (used to test the launch...how long the Orion programme has been in gestation!). The museum also houses the lunar module simulator that was suspended from ...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... Launius, Associate Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. "It doesn't mean they don't do science or that those scientific discoveries are not important." That...
