Today’s Deep Space Extra, Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Today’s (Tuesday) space news scan offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Reaching Mars could help to solve pressing issues at home. Space likely to figure in U.S. presidential decision — quietly, if...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Monday, September 14, 2015
Today’s (Monday) space news scan offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The next U.S. president should consult with the aerospace industry on nation’s exploration goals, according to op-ed. New Pluto...
Astronaut Frank Culbertson on 9/11
Today, Exploredeepspace remembers the tragedy that befell the United States 14 years ago and forever changed the world.
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, September 11, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin displays an eagerness to rev up public enthusiasm for space with a new Mars book for children. Engineers...
Japan’s H-II Transfer Vehicles – a six-year perfect record
On this day in 2009, Japan’s HTV-1 was launched on a maiden flight to resupply the International Space Station. HTV-1 arrived seven days later, and was grappled by the station’s Canadarm and docked to the Harmony port. This mission solidified Japan’s...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, September 10, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Assembly of the NASA/Lockheed Martin Orion capsule assigned to the first space test flight of the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket has...
SLS is bringing back the thunder
NASA’s Space Launch System will be the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. With one variant standing over 400 feet tall, SLS will be taller than London’s Big Ben, and more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. The 70-metric-ton...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. U.S. presidential candidates avoid talk on space, though Mars is within reach. NASA looks for chance to develop powerful Space Launch System...
James Webb Space Telescope’s Sunshield getting closer to spacecraft integration
Northrop Grumman recently tested a revolutionary new “sunshield” for the James Webb Space Telescope. The sunshield will protect the telescope’s extremely delicate instruments from solar radiation while the telescope’s mirrors point outward into...Space Talk
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