My Space Museum

An inevitable part of ageing is watching time claim your heroes one by one as the years go by. This week, the world lost Dr Sally Ride all t...

This week I present the press kit from space shuttle Enterprise ’s fifth and final free flight. Before the space shuttle commenced operati...

Sometimes real-world experience beats anything you can do in simulation. The space shuttle design relied on many bold design decisions, and ...

On 12 March 1976, final assembly of NASA’s first space shuttle was completed at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, California (n...

This week, a photo of—and a physical relic from—the prototype Space Shuttle, Enterprise . Construction work on NASA’s first Space Shuttle ...

Even before the Apollo program landed astronauts on the moon, NASA began firm plans for a re-usable spacecraft that would make regular trips...

This week’s item, like last week’s, was issued to commemorate the collaborative Apollo–Soyuz mission flown by the United States and the Sovi...