NASA, Nine Other Space Agencies Look to Future Cooperation in the Exploration of Deep Space

Aug 31, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Moon

  Senior officials from NASA and the space agencies of nine other nations gathered in Kyoto, Japan on Tuesday to shape a coordinated multinational strategy for space exploration called the Global Exploration Roadmap. The planning, under way for a year, identifies...

NASA Demo Missions to Enable Deep Space Exploration

Aug 23, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Commercial Space, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun

NASA will invest $175 million in a trio of new technology demonstration flights that promise to hasten much more capable missions of deep space exploration by humans as well as robots. The demo flights, which the space agency intends to undertake in 2015 and 2016,...

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Readied for Acoustical Testing

Jul 28, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV, is moving forward as the space agency’s deep space vehicle for human exploration. At the Lockheed Martin Waterton facility near Denver, Colorado, work is underway to integrate the Crew Module and the tower-like Launch...