The big question: Where will space travel be in a decade’s time?
Date Published: May 13, 2014 Source: Wired Magazine Wired asks a panel of experts how they think space travel will evolve over the next decade. Frank de Winne, First European astronaut commander “First, on the institutional side, we will have a system that will...NASA investigates how to keep crew healthy during deep space missions
Date Published: May 7, 2014 Source: Engadget Now that we’re this close to sending humans to Mars, NASA thought it best to start preparing for one of its biggest goals: deep space exploration. Three NASA Ames Research Center studies that aim to explore the...Breaking Ground: Making History: Space Launch System Structural Test Stands to be Built at Marshall Space Flight Center
Date Published: May 6, 2014 Source: NASA NASA is contracting for the construction of the test stands through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has awarded a $45.3 million contract to Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Alabama. SLS will be the most powerful...Advancing Progress on SLS Avionics
From left, Wayne Arrington, a Boeing Company technician, and Steve Presti, a mechanical technician at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., install Developmental Flight Instrumentation Data Acquisition Units in Marshall’s Systems Integration and...LVAC: Advancing the Technology Readiness Of SLS Adaptive Controls
Can a rocket maneuver like an airplane? And can an airplane act as a surrogate for a maneuvering rocket? NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F/A-18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for...NASA Orbiter Finds New Gully Channel on Mars
A comparison of images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in November 2010 and May 2013 reveal the formation of a new gully channel on a crater-wall slope in the southern highlands of Mars....Orion Boosters Build Anticipation
NASA hopes to launch an Orion crew capsule into space for the first time before the end of this year — two or three months later than previously planned. Once targeted for September or October, the mission called Exploration Flight Test-1, or EFT-1, is now shooting...Engineers Continue Pushing Orion Parachute System to Its Limits
The parachute system designed for NASA’s Orion spacecraft passed another hurdle on Feb. 26, in a test that put extra stress on its drogue parachutes and simulated a failure of one of its three main parachutes. Engineers dropped a dart-shaped test vehicle that...Space Talk
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