(Image credit: NASA) 'Fathers' of rocketry In the modern era, spaceflight historians often acknowledge three “fathers of rocketry” who helped push the first rockets into space. Admittedly, the term singles out a person who may have been in charge of a large team, and also comes from an...
Unfortunately, the space shuttle wasn’t the cheap and reliable method of getting to orbit that it was supposed to be. Each space shuttle was an incredibly complex machine that had to be inspected for months after each launch. Likewise, the booster rockets and external fuel tanks basically had...
The history of space exploration is rich with photos from NASA. Each weekday, SPACE.com looks back at the spaceflight through photos.
If not, come with us on a journey through time as we explore the history of man's greatest achievement - breaking through the space barrier. Created by Crank, publishers of Junior Astronaut: Breaking Through The Space Barrier available for iPad. Built with source material from NASA and ...
Two Falcon Heavy boosters successfully land at Cape Canaveral, paving the way for development of fully-reusable rockets in the future. (SpaceX) The success of this partially-reusable system is paving the way for the development of SpaceX’s fully-reusable (and cost-saving) rocket, the Starship...
Morrison celebrates oldest living former NASA astronaut State Senator Julie Morrison commemorated Dec. 21, 2024 as James A. Lovell Day to celebrate the Lake Forest man whose words of, "Houston, we've had a problem," are still said daily some 54 years later. December 6, 2024Australian Financi...
explore the brief history of NASA’s logos, how the change from the meatball to the worm took place, and the recognition of richard danne.
The development of high-performance rockets during World War II and thereafter, though primarily for military purposes, presaged important new possibilities. Observations of phenomena within the upper atmosphere of the Earth and beyond began in......
This paper examines the history to date of RocketCams on expendable and manned launch vehicles, assesses their current utility on rockets, spacecraft and ... R Ridenoure,,RD Habbit,,P Tchoryk - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 被引量: 6发表: 2004年 Th...
Over the course of the history of today's rockets, liquid rocket engines have been used as primary propulsion for most space launch vehicles and early ball... ES Kim,JL Emdee,RK Cohn - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 被引量: 1发表: 2010年 Experimental study on high-frequency combustion instabilit...