by Rob Coppinger | Apr 26, 2010 | Seradata News
Following a meeting between the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programmes and the space operations mission directorate’s senior management NASA has concluded that STS-133/Discovery now becomes the Launch-On-Need (LON) vehicle for the...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 23, 2010 | Seradata News
Narrated by one James Doohan (where’s the “Scots” accent?!) this 27min 22s is dated 1981 and promotes the Space Shuttle, in particular the orbiter Columbia, as a new epoch in exploration. Perhaps prophetically the film talks of the destiny of nations...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 12, 2009 | Seradata News
credit NASA tv / caption: the hydrogen vent line connects to the external tank for space shuttle Discovery NASA has set the launch date for space shuttle Discovery’s mission STS-119 as no earlier than this Sunday but only what NASA engineers call “wiggle...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 21, 2009 | Seradata News
credit NASA / caption: Orbiter Atlantis and its SSMEs. Click on the image to see a larger version NASA has told Hyperbola, “Some individuals at NASA believe that a limited number of established or start-up commercial space transportation organizations may...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 19, 2009 | Seradata News
credit Space Exploration Technologies For those of you who didn’t spot it in my colleague John Croft’s NASA commercial resupply services (CRS) analysis Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has apparently started a study for NASA on how to send to the...
