Joanne Maguire’s father, a retired aerospace executive, didn’t think she was “tough enough” for all of the rigors of a top leadership position in aerospace. As a girl she had a natural aptitude for math but decided in college to switch majors to engineering. She went to work in the aerospace industry and gradually worked [...]
With its heavy cranes, arc welders and steel rolling machines, the nondescript metalworking shop located inside a hangar hard by the runways at Cleveland’s Hopkins Airport looks like countless other industrial factories in this rustiest of Rust Belt cities. But there’s no mistaking the distinctive, white-painted, 5-ton steel cylinder, 6 feet high and 18 feet [...]
NASA Langley Research Center here will play a vital role in sending humans back to the moon and on to Mars while continuing its more traditional research role in support of Earth-bound aircraft, the head of NASA said Tuesday. Even so, Michael Griffin, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, offered no guarantees of [...]
As NASA looks to life after the space shuttle, space agency officials came to Salt Lake City on Tuesday to discuss the future of human space exploration. Brigham City’s ATK Launch Systems Group will play a key role in propelling NASA’s next-generation Ares Launch Vehicles. The Utah tie prompted NASA to hold a public meeting [...]
Thank you for inviting me to speak at this colloquium; I am truly honored. This lecture series dates back to 1971, with the inaugural address by Wernher von Braun, and many other luminaries from our industry have followed him, so I have big shoes to fill. I started my career in the aerospace business in [...]
Florida is not content with just winning the assembly and launch work for NASA’s next human spaceship. Gov. Jeb Bush and the president of the state’s new space agency say they aim to capture more pieces of NASA’s next moon-landing program as well as investment and jobs created by space tourism and other private space [...]
Charming cottage, secluded location, stunning panoramic views… A Swedish artist has asked experts to help design one of Sweden’s iconic little red cottages – but this one will stand on the Moon. Mikael Genberg has recruited the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) to help plan the operation. The little red houses are found across the Swedish [...]
MOSCOW, Oct. 18 — Russia is building a new spaceship that can fly to the moon. Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of Russia’s Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, told RIA Novosti the final design of a modernized spaceship has been given the working name of Soyuz-K. Sevastyanov said the new spaceship is being designed so it can [...]
A September 28 House Science Committee oversight hearing on development of NASA’s Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) demonstrated that the space agency and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) do not see eye-to-eye on the least risky and most cost- effective way to develop the vehicle. The CEV, now named “Orion,” is part of President Bush’s Vision [...]
For the past 10 minutes, I’ve been trying to nuzzle the Orion space capsule up to the International Space Station to dock, but I keep drifting left, smack into a European lab. Then I look slightly past the flat-panel screen that displays my incompetence with the joystick, through the window and straight up. I see [...]