Granted, you can put it in an easy mode, but its real strength is you can very accurately model spacecraft like the Space Shuttle and have very realistic controls. In order to spur development ...

The film discusses a simulation rehearsal for NASA's first space shuttle flight, highlighting the preparation and training of the flight control team at the Johnson Space Center. The team, consisting ...

The control surfaces of the Space Shuttle orbiters ... of the Space Shuttle orbiter is what would make it hilariously expensive and inherently unsafe for manned space flight.

All the equipment for the care and feeding of uprated Space Shuttle Main Engines ... commands from the vehicle’s flight computers, managing valve positions to control supply rates, keeping ...

NASA's new water-scouting moon orbiter has been in trouble ... Lunar Trailblazer flight controllers are using NASA's Deep Space Network, along with ground-based observatories, to better understand ...

Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle ... Space Station (ISS) as a “Safe Haven” if inspections shown major damage to the heat shield of the orbiter. That was the pattern for all RTF (Return To ...

The European Space Agency (ESA ... to avoid it experiencing drag," says Sam Bammens from the Solar Orbiter Flight Control Team. However, Solar Orbiter will still be bathed in the thermal radiation ...