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Days after SpaceX won a NASA contract to launch a galaxy-mapping space telescope, the space agency has selected Falcon Heavy to launch a small space station to the Moon some four years from now. Loosely known as Gateway, NASA and a few of its ‘centers’ have been floating the concept for years – partially on […]
NASA introduces new class of flight directors FacebookTwitterEmail NASA’s Johnson Space Center Mission Control White Flight Control Room on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, in Houston.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer NASA has selected four new flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station, the agency announced. These individuals join an elite group of 101 people who have worked in Houston's Mission Control Center leading flight controllers, engineers and other professionals at NASA and its international partners. “Our flight directors are at the...
/PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Power and...
Credits: NASA NASA has selected four new additions to its cadre of flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station. The newest inductees in the class of 2021 are Diane Dailey, Chloe Mehring, Fiona Turett, and Brandon Lloyd. They will work in the Mission Control Center of NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston to lead teams of flight controllers, engineers, and countless professionals, both agencywide and internationally. Following a rigorous training program that includes both technical knowledge and leadership skills, they will be ready to oversee human spaceflight m...
Rolls-Royce runs first engine on its large, smart testbed Testbed 80 has been designed to test today’s jet engines and the hybrid or all-electric flight systems of the future. With an internal area of 7,500m 2, making it larger than a Premiership football [soccer] pitch, the testbed conducted its first run on a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine at the test facility in Derby, UK. This is a major milestone in the project which has been under construction for almost three years and represents a $123 million investment. Chris Cholerton, president, Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace, said: “Today is an im...