Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 2, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 2, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA is pursuing spacecraft development at an aggressive pace, say experts. Writer Andy Weir explains how The Martian was formulated. The...
NASA Marks Completion of Test Version of Key SLS Propulsion System

NASA Marks Completion of Test Version of Key SLS Propulsion System

A structural test article of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for NASA’s new deep-space exploration rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), has been completed at United Launch Alliance in Decatur, Alabama, prior to handover to the Boeing Company of...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 2, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, October 30, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The U.S. Senate early Friday joined the House in approving a two year budget/debt limit deal that goes to President Obama for signature. NASA...
John Glenn’s second spaceflight anniversary

John Glenn’s second spaceflight anniversary

On this day in 1998, John Glenn returned to space and became the oldest human to do so. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, preforming a four-hour flight in the Friendship-7 spacecraft on Feb. 20, 1962. After retiring from the Astronaut Corps. and...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 2, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, October 29, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The Coalition for Space Exploration to formalize organization. Cassini, the long running U.S., European and Italian spacecraft mission at...
NASA’s Next Megarocket could launch mission to Europa

NASA’s Next Megarocket could launch mission to Europa

The huge rocket NASA is developing to get astronauts to an asteroid, Mars and other distant destinations should also greatly aid robotic exploration efforts, members of Congress were told Tuesday (July 28). The Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, scheduled to fly...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. United Launch Alliance joined Boeing this week in presenting NASA with an upper stage for the Space Launch System exploration rocket. The ULA...
SLS and tomorrow’s destinations

SLS and tomorrow’s destinations

“For the first time, humans will be a dual-planet species.” Have you seen the variety of missions that SLS could be used for? From a return to the moon to an extra-solar jaunt, SLS will be able to deliver our human and robotic explorers to incredible...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Congressional leaders and the White House may have budget and debt limit deals. NASA Critical Design Review clears Orion capsule for production...