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The best tool for planning your next Martian Highlands trip.

Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft raise a crater mystery at giant asteroid Ceres. Engineers overcome navigation challenges to guide New Horizons to Pluto. Astronomers reach breakthrough in witnessing early galaxy birth and growth. Think of strangely shaped Comet […]

The only term more exciting than “spacecraft” has to be “spacecraft fleet.”

Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The National Research Council presses NASA for a response to a year-old assessment of the agency’s human deep space exploration strategy, one the council suggested should include the moon rather than an asteroid fragment as an interim destination. […]

A case study in masterful adaptation to changing circumstances.

Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The Martian, fictional best seller and soon-to-open feature film, signals a new enthusiasm for the challenges of human space exploration, say Mars advocates.  NASA plans more ground tests of the Space Launch System rocket engine. NASA’s Curiosity […]