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Shuttle With Aft Cargo Carrier
wired.com 2 weeks, 4 days agoBefore the January 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, NASA and its contractors studied many ways that the Shuttle system could be augmented to perform new tasks. After Challenger, NASA abandoned many planned Shuttle missions as unsafe and augmentation planning all but ended. Space historian David S. F. Portree looks at a pre-Challenger proposal which could have more than doubled the shuttle's cargo space.
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Manned Asteroid Flyby Mission
wired.com 3 weeks, 3 days agoAsteroids often arouse fear when they should really arouse fascination. Relics of the early Solar System, they contain clues to the formation of the planets. In 1966, a Northrop Space Laboratories engineer proposed a piloted flyby of the near-Earth asteroid Eros to prepare astronauts for voyages to the planets. Space historian David S. F. Portree describes this early plan for a manned asteroid mission.
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