Jalopnik

Why NASA Picked A Boeing 747 To Piggyback The Space Shuttle

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...

Comprehensive Analysis of the Space Shuttle Program: Policy Decision Dynamics, Engineering Compromises, Organizational Culture Pathologies, and Historical Legacy

Political and Historical Context and Policy Dynamics Leading to Development Decisions1.1 Completion of the Apollo Program and ...

Reading the Space Shuttle through a 'Model' Part 2: Figure 2 Orbiter Subsystem Configuration

IntroductionIn Part 1, we looked at the Space Shuttle (STS: Space Transportation System) by dividing it into three parts—the ...
Fast Company

space shuttle space transportation

What is the SpaceX Starship? The fully reusable Starship super-heavy-lift launch vehicle is the latest innovation from SpaceX—designed to reduce both waste and overall cost in aerospace flights.
New York Post

Why the Space Shuttle was the wrong craft at the wrong time

The decades-long quest to build a reusable space shuttle tested America's post-War technological and innovative spirit. Getty Images When the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space ...
Phys.org

Bid to relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery faces museum pushback

Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic space shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to ...
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Upgrading the Space Shuttle

The space shuttle system has been modified many times since the first launch of space shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, major upgrade programs were established to respond to problems and ...