With all of the news regarding Discovery’s return to flight, and yet another problem with the insulating foam on the external fuel tank, people are re-examining the Columbia tragedy. Specifically, they are trying to determine why the foam keeps breaking off during shuttle launches. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) found that the most reasonable [...]
The Space Shuttle Discovery has arrived on the launch pad after a 10 1/2 hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building. NASA plans on launching the Shuttle on May 15, 2005 on a mission to the International Space Station. A small hair-line crack in the foam on the outside of the external fuel tank held [...]
Gordon Cooper, one of the Original 7 Mercury astronauts, has died at the age of 77. Cooper was the pilot of Faith 7, the last flight of Project Mercury, America’s first manned space program. Without his contributions, the Apollo moon landings would not have been possible. Imortalized in the book and movie “The Right Stuff,” [...]
SpaceShipOne was launched into space today, less than two weeks after having been launched into space previously, and thus winning the Ansari X-Prize. Congrats to Burt Rutan and his team for pulling this off. Soon, everyone will be able to take a trip to the stars!
The da Vinci Project plans to win the Ansari X-Prize for Canada. However, they have run into a delay. This could endanger their quest for the prize, as the folks at Scaled Composits are scheduled to launch SpaceShipOne next week. I’ve always had a facination with the conquest of space, and remembered eagerly watching the [...]
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