Shuttle News

Crew: NASA’s attitudes still need to change, USA Today“Collins said that before relying on repair materials to get home, she would like to see them thoroughly tested. Her crew plans […]

Shuttle panel divided over NASA compliance, MSNBC“I heard things went non-linear on the first day when [task group member] Dan Crippen basically led a revolt,” against Tom Stafford and Richard […]

Space Station Crew Photographs NASA Shuttle Discovery’s Rollout to Launch Complex 39B – From Orbit“Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao used a digital camera April 6 […]

Risks remain as launch nears, Houston Chronicle“We are being much more meticulous than we have been in the past,” said Bill Parsons, NASA’s space shuttle program manager. “I would says […]

NASA Presolicitation Notice: Sponsorship Opportunity for Bandwidth Support to Return to Flight Missions (STS-114, STS-121) “As Discovery and Atlantis are readied for their respective Return to Flight Missions, NASA is […]

NASA Internal Memo From Wayne Hale: What I learned at ISOS“So the fundamental question remains, do we have those qualities that made our ancestors successful?Do we have the judgment to […]

Editor’s note: NASA is planning to fly no more than 28 Space Shuttle Flights between now and 2010 at a rate of roughly 5 per year. This will lead to […]

Editor’s note: The Stafford/Covey RTF Task Force is not going to be releasing its final recommendations tomorrow as had been planned. The fact finding that needs to go into the […]

Editor’s note: If you visit Astronaut Space Safety 2005 you’ll see that the report “SPACE SAFETY REPORT: Vulnerabilities and Risk Reduction In U.S. Human Space Flight Programs”, written by the […]

With regard to Astronaut Space Safety 2005:Section 1.1: “We would have preferred to base this study on more primary sources, but these were not always available to us since this […]