Orion Spacecraft – Exploration Flight Test-1
It’s been a long time since the Space Shuttle last flew. STS 135 touched down July 21st 2011 – the last time the USA had the capability to send... Read more →
50 Year Old Agena-D Rocket Photographed in Orbit
The Thor Agena B with Discoverer 37 on the launch pad Jan. 13, 1962. Imagine seeing the remains of a rocket launch from 50 years ago, as a fossil... Read more →
Suborbital Spaceflight and Decompression Risk
The disaster of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo has brought under public scrutiny problematics of safety in the suborbital space tourism industry. On... Read more →
Suborbital Spaceflight: Do We Need Accidents?
Do we really need to wait for accidents before we write a safety standard? System safety engineering answers that question with an emphatic NO.... Read more →
SpaceShipTwo: Media Coverage of a Space Disaster
The tragic loss of SpaceShipTwo was the second space accident to hit headlines in less than a week. It was also one of those rare occasions when the... Read more →
The SpaceShipTwo Disaster: A Matter of Transparency
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashed on Friday 31 October during a test flight in California's Mojave Desert, killing one of the two... Read more →