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...
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 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...
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 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...
Organization establishes new structure, undergoes name change and announces its first executive director The Coalition for Space Exploration, an ad-hoc organization of space industry businesses and advocacy groups, today announced it is taking formal steps to...
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 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...
“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 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...
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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.