Impact of Columbia Disaster on US Aviation Safety
The Columbia Disaster changed my personal and professional life dramatically. The morning of the accident a fellow Federal Aviation... Read more →
Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster
It is with a cautionary note that I propose some of my personal lessons learned from the tragic loss of the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia. I have... Read more →
Living In Space 4: Mental Wellbeing and Day To Day Living
While asteroids and radiation are truly some of the biggest challenges we face in human expansion into space, there is one often overlooked aspect... Read more →
Infrasonic Detection of Meteorites
In the early morning hours of November 17, 1998, a bright fireball was observed over northern New Mexico, about 150km away from Los Alamos. The... Read more →
![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-350x200.jpg)
Cause and Consequences of the Columbia Disaster
A color enhanced, de-blurred still frame of the foam strike, derived from video recording (Credits: NASA). The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster... Read more →
Launching via Trampoline
The latest developments in geopolitics is putting a squeeze on space activities - and not just the international kind. When the recent political... Read more →