July highlights from the SLS team
July’s SLS Highlights Report is ready for your consumption! In this issue: SLS’s development for an eventual Mars mission is evaluated, a Simsbury, CT industry partner is highlighted, and the construction of the core stage hydrogen tanks is documented....
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, August 28, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Andy Weir, author of The Martian, predicts human exploration of the red planet by 2050, sooner if Congress backs the plans. The moon has a good...
The Mariner 2 launch was 53 years ago today
Mariner 2, the first human probe to Venus, launched from Cape Canaveral on this day in 1962. Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to encounter another planet, and confirmed that Venus has cool clouds and an extremely hot surface. Mariner 2 also set the stage for future...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, August 27, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s Orion capsule clears a milestone unpiloted parachute recovery test. The 2016 U.S. presidential candidates and their stance on...
Stennis Space Center SLS Test Stand gains about a million pounds
Engineers working at Stennis Space Center just recently completed a massive steel tower that will be used to test the Space Launch System’s (SLS) core stage to prepare for SLS’s first launch in 2018. First built in the 1960s to test the Saturn V and Space...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Mars One: Billionaires could make visions of a red planet settlement possible. Orion capsule testing takes place at YPG. NASA’s Dawn...
‘The Time is Now’ for America’s Journey to Mars
Have you seen this op-ed in Roll Call from NASA veterans Doug Cooke and Dan Dumbacher? A mission to Mars would be extremely valuable to the country, both scientifically and financially. Congress must act now to ensure our continuing leadership in space. Do you...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. U.S. deep space planning should include lunar resources, the commercial sector and a wide international partnership, according to a lunar...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Monday, August 24, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Experts address the stress challenges of human Mars exploration. NASA refurbishes the Pegasus barge to chauffeur NASA’s Space Launch...Space Talk
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