Today’s Deep Space Extra, Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA is closer than ever to reaching Mars with human explorers, Administrator Charles Bolden says during a Washington event discussing The...
The Martian Exploration Family
Can you name all of our Mars missions? With a success rate of about 50%, the incredibly difficult path to Mars is littered with failed spacecraft. While the U.S. has had moderately more success with Mars missions, the losses of the Mars Observer, the Mars Climate...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Monday, September 21, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden declares human explorers closer than ever to reaching Mars. The Martian, slated to open in movie theaters...
New Horizons Mission transmits most detailed images of Pluto yet
Have you seen the latest from New Horizons? NASA JPL’s mission to Pluto has returned some more absolutely stunning images from the distant Kuiper Belt object. “This new view of Pluto’s crescent – taken by New Horizons’ wide-angle Ralph/Multispectral Visual...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, September 18. 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Though a challenge, humans will reach Mars with more assets than the Apollo astronauts had as they stepped to the surface of the moon, says...
226 years since the discovery of Mimas
On this day in 1789, William Herschel discovered Mimas, the seventh known satellite of Saturn. Herschel discovered Mimas only three weeks after discovering Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon. He credits the discoveries to the development of his 40-foot...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, September 17, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Top NASA officials announce a likely two year delay, from 2021 to 2023, in the launching of the first test flight of the Orion crew exploration...
NASA’s Orion Monthly for August
NASA’s Orion monthly highlights for August is out! In this issue: Orion passes a critical parachute malfunction test, which will ensure that astronauts return to Earth safely. Orbital ATK is beginning construction on Orion’s launch abort motor–the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Findings from Cassini, a joint U.S. European spacecraft mission to Saturn, suggests the moon Enceladus hosts a global ocean beneath its icy...Space Talk
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