by David Todd | Mar 20, 2013 | Space Shuttle
The BBC docu-drama The Challenger, recently shown on BBC television, dramatises the investigative process after the Space Shuttle Challenger so memorably blew up some 73 seconds into its flight with the doomed astronauts’ shocked families looking on, after its...
by David Todd | Jan 16, 2013 | International Space Station, Science, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, space station
Former Canadian space shuttle astronaut Steve Maclean has given notice has resigned from his position as President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and will leave on 1st February to join a Physics research company. Maclean has held his...
by Dan Thisdell | Jan 10, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, space station, Technology
Just to give an idea of lead times in spaceflight: Arianespace has begun loading cargo into the European Space Agency’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle robotic supply ship, named Albert Einstein – which launches via Ariane 5 rocket for the International...
by David Todd | Oct 9, 2012 | Apollo, SLS, Space Shuttle
In its quest to pursue manned space exploration to the Moon, asteroids and onwards to Mars, NASA began its Space Launch System heavy lift launch vehicle programme after Project Constellation was cancelled. While the initial Block 1 SLS design has...
by David Todd | Jul 3, 2012 | History, Space Shuttle
Former US Navy pilot and Space Shuttle astronaut, Captain Alan Poindexter, 50, has been killed in a jet ski accident on 1 July. Poindexter piloted the Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-122 in February 2008 and was commander...
by Dan Thisdell | Mar 5, 2012 | ESA, International Space Station, Space Shuttle
It turns out it’s the payload – the third of the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle robotic Space Station re-supply ships – not the Ariane 5 rocket that’s behind the delay to the 9 March launch. According to launch...
