The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and ended on July 21, 2011, with wheels stop of STS-135. During the 30 years and 135 missions in between, the program experienced triumphs and tragedies...
NASA spacecraft days away from risky landing (AP, via The Japan News)
https://www.apnews.com/80b0bb92a4a147a0bb0b99626c96044d
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/overview/
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/timeline/overview/
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/about-the-lander/...
The BepiColombo space probe is heading towards Mercury after a successful launch at 02:45 BST. It will take seven years for BepiColombo to reach Mercury. BBC News article.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45838991
And this is the full launch of BepiColombo from the Arianespace...
Previously known as the Deep Space Gateway (DSG) or Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G).
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-throws-doubt-joint-lunar-space-station-u-105357218--finance.html
http://www.moondaily.com/reports/Airbus_wins_ESA_studies_for_future_human_base_in_lunar_orbit_999.html
G'day fellow forum members.
I'm trying to find information pertaining to the Blackburn Buccaneer's development being financially supported by US money.
I read it in a credible book many years ago about the Blackburn Buccaneer, but haven't been able to find the book nor title.
Any help in finding...
2nd US Satellite: Vanguard 1 1958 NASA; Oldest Satellite Still in Orbit
Jeff Quitney
Published on Jul 13, 2018
"On March 17, (1958) a Vanguard I rocket launched an Earth satellite with solar batteries. Data from the mission was used to determine that the Earth is slightly pear-shaped.
From...
1958
2018
cold war
committee on special objectives
department of defense
early 1960s
glenn l. martin company
late 1950s
nasa
nrl
nrl rocket development branch
space age
space race
the martin company
united states
united states navy naval research laboratory
This is an orbit-to-orbit design spacecraft from the Martin Marietta corporation. I found it in a book Man's Conquest of Space by the National Geographic Society (1968). Now you know as much as I do.
Does anybody know if this was an actual study or just something slapped together by the MM...
The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...
1970s
1980s
deep space probes
interstellar space
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
nuclear power
nuclear rockets
nuclear-electric propulsion
solar system
stellar cartography
thousand astronomical unit
In 2003, I wrote in a white heat an essay on Columbia's loss, which took on the shuttle's history. I submitted this to "Harper's" and "The Atlantic," neither of which bought it.
Unrevised save for the addition of photos, it can be found on my personal website here...
In other words, steampunk in the space age. ;D
ORIGINAL CAPTION: AREE is a clockwork rover inspired by mechanical computers. A JPL team is studying how this kind of rover could explore extreme environments, like the surface of Venus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech...
The Leros engine has commonalities with other engines that have called issues including MUOS 5 I believe.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/due-to-concerns-about-engine-juno-to-remain-in-elongated-jupiter-orbit/
1980s
cold war
late 1970s
nasa
national reconnaissance office
space age
space race
space shuttle
space transportation system
spy sat
strategic reconnaissance
united states air force
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