Tag: Shuttle/Centaur

Waste in Space. Trucking Nuclear Waste on the Space Shuttle.

Launching the By-Products of Nuclear Power into Space The hundred years that made up the twentieth century was full of tremendous innovation and technological progress, but it was also littered with bad ideas.  It is said that “necessity is the mother of invention,” and where there is a problem,...

The Greatest Spacecraft Never Built? The Space Tug

Nixon Wakes Up NASA in the Middle of a Dream   How often is it that we talk about the “golden era” of something? Generally, that tends to infer that the best of something is behind us. It doesn’t mean that great things won’t, or can’t be accomplished in...