Reports the stealing of the space shuttle design for the Web site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by computer hackers in the U.S. Mechanical designs of the space shuttle; Potential military ...
Explore the history of the NASA Space Shuttle. Learn about the space shuttle design elements and read about the impact of early space shuttle...
Yes it’s a compromise, but it was a decision that we took to say – if we were to add something new, what’s the reason for doing a new space shuttle rather than celebrating the 40th anniversary? And the reason is that now we can add in all those extra details because ...
Work resumed more seriously when the first landing on themoonwas imminent, in 1969. At that time, then-President Richard Nixon appointed aSpace Task Groupto look at future space options, and in subsequent years NASA began awarding design contracts for shuttle ideas. However, according to NASA h...
on their new stationery. Those loyal to the old design were offended, and a rivalry between “T...
The payload bay needs to be hollow for maximum realism, but Madge's design team struggled at first with making sure the front and back would not fall off. Lego NASA Space Shuttle Discovery designer Milan Madge with his creation. (Image credit: LEGO) Creative strengthening of the middle ...
The new LEGO NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, which was developed in collaboration with NASA, is a complex 2,354 piece build that pays homage to this pioneering moment in space history and marks the 40th anniversary since the first Space Shuttle flight on 12th of April 1981. The set, aimed ...
NASA has invented all sorts of technology to solve the peculiar problems of space exploration. In the 1950s and early 1960s, it created the revolutionary three-axis stabilization control design that enables satellites to point their antennas, instruments and solar panels with precision. Since then,...
Haynes NASA Space Shuttle: 1981 onwards (allmodels): Owners' Workshop Manual: An insight into the design, construction, and operation of the NASA Space Shuttle by Dr. David Baker. Zenith Press, 2011. 160 pages. ISBN 978-0-7603-4076-9 (hardcover, $28.00). In 1984 I had a problem with...
NASA has decided the final museum homes for its space shuttle fleet. Shuttle Discovery will go to the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Va. (upper left); the shuttle test orbiter Enterprise will go to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York...