November is shaping up to be a busy month for Orion and Space Launch System hardware. For the first time since the space shuttle program, a human-rated flight engine was lifted into a test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. And in Turin, Italy,...
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA seeks new astronaut applicants for the first time in four years. Europe has shipped its first contribution to the NASA/Lockheed Martin...
Last week, NASA released findings of a six month-long study to determine the composition and history of Mars’ atmosphere. Scientists working on the project posit that the solar wind has gradually stripped Mars of most of its atmosphere, leaving it with a...
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA features photos of a space suit prototype for future planetary explorers. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completes the last of four...
Teams at AMRO Fabricating Corp. in South El Monte, California, show completed flight and structural test article hardware panels, arranged in order, for each section of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built...
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s Space Launch System exploration rocket and Orion crew exploration capsule programs have assumed budget increases not yet approved,...
On this day in 1995, STS-73 on the Space Shuttle Columbia returned to Earth after an extremely successful 15-day mission in orbit. STS-73 carried the second United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) Spacelab mission. Experiments conducted in-flight included...
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA will seek new recruits for its astronaut corps, men and women that could train for future deep space exploration as well as service aboard...
Frank Morring, Jr. NASA human-spaceflight managers are evaluating whether it will be possible to switch to a more capable upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) in time for its first flight with a crew. The U.S. space agency has scheduled that flight...
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Two space veterans make the case for the moon as a destination on the way to Mars with humans. As NASA starts a human Mars landing site...
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