Gateway is Good for Landers
Here’s a little-known fact: Gateway can help us get maximum use out of the landers we are sending to the Moon. NASA expects to award contracts for small commercial landers in December, and these landers are expected to launch to the Moon’s surface starting in...
Gateway Can Do It
Gateway Can Do It Gateway provides a number of infrastructure capabilities that will be extremely helpful as NASA partners with industry and international partners to continue to expand into the frontier of deep space. ⯈ CubeSat deployment: Cislunar space operations...
Science Enabled by Gateway
Gateway will be a space science laboratory that is both similar and different from the International Space Station. Like the station, it can accommodate exterior research as well as interior experiments. Unlike the station, it orbits the moon where the...
Why a Gateway?
As NASA’s Gateway keeps popping up in the news, it is worthwhile to explain what Gateway is and how it fits into the overarching plan for deep space exploration. Gateway is a moon-orbiting space station that will serve as a staging point for missions to the...
Book Review: The Complete Space Buff’s Bucket List
By Leonard David Book Review: The Complete Space Buff’s Bucket List, by Loretta Hall; Rio Grande Books; 2016; Cost: $15.95. Maybe it’s my old age setting in. But a new book just showed up in my mail box that is so timely. Loretta Hall has authored The Complete Space...
New Books for Future Mars Settlers
New Books for Future Mars Settlers There are two new and invaluable books on Mars, both of them ideal for those ready to settle down on the Red Planet: – How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek – The International Mars Research Station – An exciting new plan to...CSExtra – Top Space News for Friday, June 19, 2015
Today’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Terrestrial simulations in the Canadian Arctic suggest that humans on Mars will not contaminate the search for evidence of indigenous life on the red...CSExtra – Top Space News for Thursday, June 18, 2015
Today’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The first unpiloted flight test of NASA’s Orion crew exploration capsule confirms three design principles, according to Lockheed Martin’s program...CSExtra – Top Space News for Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Today’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee report on the 2016 budget adds money to the White House request for the Space Launch System and Orion,...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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