Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s deep space exploration plans include women in prominent roles. Russian economic, foreign relations issues slow but don’t...
As part of the $19.3 billion allocated by Congress to NASA for the 2016 fiscal year budget, $55 million will go towards accelerated development of a habitation module for use in potential deep space missions. According to Space News, the report states “NASA shall...
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. European space officials express interest in joining with NASA for a future Europa mission. Partnered with the European Space Agency, Russia is ready...
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden talks human deep space exploration. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter solves Apollo 16 mystery. The...
On this day in 2004, the Spirit rover successfully landed on Mars inside of the crater Gusev. Spirit, part of a two-rover team, landed three weeks before its sister rover Opportunity and became the first robotic explorer to return a high-definition image of another...
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. U.S. lawmakers back work led by NASA on a deep space habitation module in their 2016 spending bill. NASA marked 2015 with Space Launch System...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been our eyes on the universe for over 20 years, and will soon be joined, and succeeded by, several more instruments that will exponentially advance our understanding of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the...
The Mars Science Laboratory and its rover centerpiece, Curiosity, is the most ambitious Mars mission yet flown by NASA. The rover’s primary mission is to find out if Mars is, or was, suitable for life. Another objective is to learn more about the red...
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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.