Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Assessments of this week’s Congressional mid-term election outcome on U.S. space policy gets underway. Japan’s seventh re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) draws to a close. Human Space Exploration...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The first European Space Agency (ESA) service module for NASA’s Orion crew capsule reached NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Tuesday. Tuesday’s U.S. mid-term congressional elections will bring changes to House and...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The outcome of Tuesday’s U.S. Congressional elections could alter the makeup of the House and Senate panels responsible for NASA appropriations and policy. Might Ceres lure justify a Dawn II mission?  With NASA’s Mars bound...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) Orion Capsule will receive its European service module this week, a milestone in efforts to prepare the spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) for their inaugural joint test flight, an...

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Russia’s federal space agency announces formal conclusions from its investigation into the safe but dramatic Soyuz rocket launch abort with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin aboard. Russia plans to resume soyuz...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Russian human spaceflight official points to rocket sensor issue as the cause of October 11 soyuz rocket launch abort with NASA and Russian crew members bound for the International Space Station (ISS). NASA’s Nick Hague and cosmonaut...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Though too large and complex for re-use, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has the bi-partisan support of Congress for its role in resuming human deep space exploration. NASA’s long running Kepler planet search mission has drawn...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Veterans of U.S. human spaceflight focus on reuse and affordability, just two of the issues confronting NASA and its contractor teams as they transition from low Earth orbit to deep space exploration. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sets a...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA and its contractor teams address the challenges of developing, producing and launching the hardware that will re-start the human exploration of deep space. The Hubble Space Telescope has overcome gyroscope issues and is once again...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques is among those awaiting a Russian Soyuz launch recovery. China lifts a veil on its space station plans. Mars cloud has scientists puzzled. Human Space Exploration David Saint-Jacques waits patiently...