NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, has issued a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for advanced development proposals to support the nation's next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). NASA is soliciting proposals from industry and academia for innovative advanced development in areas including concept development, trades and analyses, propulsion, structures, materials, manufacturing, avionics and software.
We Were There to Cheer on STS-1... And To Bid STS-135 A Fond Farewell
Is it really all about to be over and done with? It was just over 30 years ago that saw a much younger, leaner and far less grey Jim Campbell in attendance for the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle. Now, three decades later, its hard to believe that our final sight of the lift-off of Atlantis is the last we will ever envision of such a magnificent rocket powered flying machine. With the International Space Station flying 220 miles high and east of Christchurch, New Zealand, Atlantis left Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1129 EDT, July 8th.
Shuttle Flight Testing, DTOs, And Misconceptions Of The So-Called 'Wheelie Landing'
In looking back over three decades to the flight of STS-3 there is one thing to keep clearly in context; this was a TEST flight. Although the Shuttle had flown two previous times, STS-3 was the next in the series of four flight tests intended to seek out and reveal flaws in the whole system.
NASA has rescheduled the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream to midnight to 0300 EDT, March 22.
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