Book Review: Return to Launch
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: Return to Launch: Florida and America’s Space Industry Author: Stephen C. Smith Format:
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Statement by the President on the Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis July 8, 2011 Today, Americans across the country watched with pride as four...
STS 135 Atlantis launches, ending the magnificent 30 year run of the world’s most amazing machine. Photos by Emily Carney. Emily Carney is a writer,...
Tools and mechanical parts might be “beamed” up to a space station or a lunar or Mars base using technology that has in recent years...
I am here. Right now they are fueling the shuttle Atlantis which looks very promising. The weather is still iffy…30% chance of launch due to...
My festive wear for Friday. Space + Peyo = For The Win. Photo by Emily Carney. As we approach the eve of the final ever...
July 6, 2010: President Obama answers a question about space at his Twitter Town Hall. QUESTION: “Now that the space shuttle is gone, where does...
Australia National University’s Plasma Research Laboratory has received a grant to help build its Helicon Double Layer Thruster (HDLT). If successful, the driver could be...
Commander John Young and pilot Bob Crippen do their pre-flight swagger-walk to breakfast, April 1981, prior to STS 1. Also, this… John Young, center, eyeballs...
The cover story of the July 2 edition of The Economist loudly proclaims “The End of the Space Age.” National Space Society Director Al Globus...
The latest addition to the NSS Space Solar Power Library is a new paper released by SpaceWorks Commercial entitled “Operational Demonstration of Space Solar Power...
From nasa.gov: “Sunrise at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida finds space shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A after the payload canister carrying the Raffaello...
IEEE Spectrum reports that a NASA engineer has come up with a new way to fling satellites through space on mere grams of fuel, tens...
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