April 5th, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket chosen to launch majority of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite constellations. Finding skilled workers remains a challenge for the aerospace industry.
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April 4th, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA is targeting Monday to complete the Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal at the Kennedy Space Center after an interrupted countdown simulation on Sunday. Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin continues to warn the agency could end its International Space Station partnership.
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April 1st, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal set to begin today. NASA remains hopeful it can reach a seat barter agreement with Roscosmos to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station.
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March 31st, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Northrop Grumman assessing options for future HLS development and Cygnus flights. The return to Earth of a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts aboard a Russian spacecraft ends on cooperative note despite global tensions. The Hubble Space Telescope spots the most distant star yet.
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March 30th, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Astronaut Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth with Russian colleagues after a U.S. record-setting 355 days in space. NASA looks to Friday to initiate the Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal. The New Horizons mission suggests Pluto is volcanic.
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March 29th, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The Biden Administration’s 2023 budget proposal includes $26 billion for NASA. Singapore has signed the Artemis Accords. Axiom Space’s AX-1 mission now scheduled for April 6.
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March 28th, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Administrator Bill Nelson to deliver a “State of NASA” address on Monday as the White House budget proposal for 2023 is presented to Congress. Efforts to return samples of Mars gathered and cached by NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover will likely move dates.
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March 24th, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA unveils revised strategy to acquire more commercial human lunar landers. Astronauts upgraded the International Space Station’s thermal control system during Wednesday’s spacewalk. Future space telescopes could look for technosignatures.
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March 23rd, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… U.S. and European spacewalkers perform International Space Station maintenance. Small companies contribute big time to human space exploration.
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March 22nd, 2022
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Europa Clipper costs grow. The exoplanet count now surpasses five thousand.
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