Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. President Obama hosted students at Monday’s “Astronomy Night” at the White House, suggesting some of them may have the...
If We Don’t Push the Limits With Space Exploration, What Are We Really Doing?
By Abigail Harrison, aspiring NASA astronaut & Board Chair at the Mars generation. I believe a love of learning is something that every person is born with. Think about it … when toddlers dump over a bowl of cereal, they are observing and playing with the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, October 19, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Space exploration, including human missions to Mars as depicted in the successful film drama The Martian, can be inspiring; but real life...
Orion Monthly Accomplishments for September 2015
NASA’s monthly newsletter for September on the development of the Orion spacecraft is here! In this issue: –Lockheed Martin engineers have begun welding together the Exploration Mission-1 Crew Module. –Propulsion tanks for the test article of...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, October 16, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. George Mueller, a pivotal NASA Apollo program manager, has died at 97. NASA appoints new managers to Orion and Space Launch System programs....
Cassini-Huygens launched 18 years ago today
On this day in 1997, NASA and the European Space Agency’s Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral. Cassini-Huygens is a monumental mission to Saturn that is still returning valuable data today. The mission included the Huygens lander that became...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, October 15, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. China’s space leadership ponders future deep space ventures. Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush likes the idea of a moon colony....Ask Me Anything with NASA’s rocket scientists
Save the date: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Explore Deep Space are hosting a Reddit iAMA on Thursday, Oct 15th at 3:00 p.m. eastern with rocket scientists and engineers working on NASA’s journey to Mars! Participating in the discussing are: Bill...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA appoints new Orion program manager. Studies of pebbles in Mars’ Gale Crater with NASA’s Curiosity rover suggest they were...Space Talk
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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.
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#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.
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The @NASA astronaut selection window is open! #ArtemisGeneration #BeAnAstronaut