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Wonderful Space Life: Part Two
Children might say, “space station is a wonderful world. There are a lot of strange things that happen in weightlessness or microgravity condition.”
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Upgrading the Space Shuttle
Time and energy were among the most precious commodities for a Space Shuttle flight. This chapter illustrates solutions planned to extend mission...
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Human Spaceflight
Human spaceflight inevitably became the most high-profile part of Japan’s space programme. Following an early American invitation to join the...
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Patrons of the (Space) Arts
Almost from the very beginning, artists have depended upon patrons in order to work. The lucky artists who could survive on the sporadic sale of...
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A Laboratory for the Space Shuttle
The statement above outlines the original intention for Spacelab in the early 1980s. Back then, it was predicted that nominal mission duration for...
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Commercial Interests in Outer Space
This chapter discusses the new and exciting era of commercial space efforts. The status of the American space program and where it is headed in the...
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Shipyards in Orbit
The International Space Station was assembled with prefabricated modules. However, when NASA was dreaming of very large orbiting infrastructures,...
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Politics and the Space Race
Chapters 8, 9, and 10 examine the politics of outer space for three different time periods. This chapter looks at the Space Race and the Cold War....
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Blue Oceans and Greenfields in Space
Investment in the cosmos economy is already experiencing growth in a wide variety of areas including energy production, communications, data...
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Spacelab Says Goodbye
Looking back over 20 years, it seemed to be an untimely end to the Spacelab program in order to make way for Space Station. There remained untapped...
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The Science and Dangers of Outer Space
This chapter examines the outer space environment and specifically the dangers of long-term flight, focusing on manned missions. Threats due to space...
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Future
Japan has a planning system in place for its rockets, satellites and missions into the 2030s. The first key priority is the introduction of a new...
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Space Art as a Modern Movement: From the Moon to Today
On March 13th, 1972, Chesley Bonestell sent a letter to the director of the NASA Art Program, James Dean, thanking him for his complimentary copy of...
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Politics, the ISS, and Private Enterprise
This chapter examines the next time period after the Space Shuttle: the International Space Station (ISS) and Private Enterprise. During the Space...
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Unflown On-Orbit Servicing Capabilities
The Space Shuttle played an indispensable role in servicing and rescuing satellites and telescopes. This chapter is dedicated to satellite servicing...
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Epilogue
“Mission complete, Huston”, Atlantis Commander Chris Ferguson uttered as he gracefully brought to a halt for the very last time the older surviving...
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From SIRIO, a Telecommunications Satellite, to a National Space Plan
At the end of the nineteen sixties, a pioneering phase in Italian space activities came to an end and a more articulate future that combined...
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The Reagan Space Legacy
Ronald Reagan’s enthusiasm for the space program as a frontier activity was a genuine part of his personality and of his ability to lead. However,...
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The Unfulfilled Potential of the External Tank
The story of the Space Shuttle development shows that the Orbiter’s design underwent severe alterations. As it was meant to be a spaceplane, nobody...
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Space Exploration: What For?
The chapter will discuss the merits and weaknesses of the main rationales proposed for pursuing space exploration, such as geopolitics, prestige,...