In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA prepares to start work on a powerful new Space Launch System upper stage to extend human deep space exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA’s Bill Hill talks SLS scheduling and Exploration Upper Stage Spaceflight...
We take the time today to honor and remember the brave men and women who gave their lives to further human knowledge through space exploration. These explorers made the ultimate sacrifice, and we are both inspired by and thankful to them. As our nation takes the next...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Orion assembly moves to Florida in a march toward a 2018 deep space test flight. A nation remembers the Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1 astronauts. Human Deep Space Exploration Lockheed says Orion still on schedule for 2018 mission...
A giant metal frame standing several yards wide rises up nearly 200 feet inside the Michoud Assembly Facility, NASA’s massive 832-acre space park outside New Orleans. “What you’re looking at is the largest welding system in the world,” said...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s human deep space ambitions rely on the largest, most powerful rocket ever developed. Human Deep Space Exploration Boeing builds the most powerful rocket ever made CNBC (1/26): Boeing tailors its development of...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Robots possible partners in human deep space exploration. Legal expert questions limits of new space property rights legislation. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA counting on humanoid robots for deep space exploration Spaceflight...
An aft skirt similar to one that will be used on a solid rocket booster (SRB) that will help launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket into space was transported from the Booster Fabrication Facility to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) at the...
NASA’s replacement for the Space Shuttle is one step closer to getting off the ground as the space agency announced last week it had completed welding the main structure for the Orion spacecraft. Together with the Space Launch System (SLS), which is also currently...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The next U.S. administration may decide where humans land on Mars. Robots may build the outpost. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA could choose Mars human landing site during next presidential administration The Planetary Society...
On this day in 1968, Apollo 5 launched from Cape Canaveral. Apollo 5 was the first orbital flight of the Apollo Lunar Module on a Saturn IB rocket. Unmanned, the flight’s objectives were to test the Lunar Module’s descent and ascent engines and stages, as...
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#BlueOrigin is eyeing the launch of an uncrewed lander to the Moon within the next 12–16 months. The launch is to demonstrate #MK1's capabilities, which include the ability to deliver up to three tons of payload anywhere on the #Moon.
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.@NASAWebb is providing new scientific insight into how stars and their protoplanetary disks form planets. The #JWST recently observed a system that just finished forming its planets.
#NASA's latest class of #astronaut candidates has graduated and is now eligible for missions to the Moon, Mars, and the @Space_Station. The agency is also accepting applications for a new class of astronauts.