Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Boeing and SpaceX discussed their NASA commercial crew safety objectives at the AIAA’s Space Forum in Orlando, Florida, this week. The annual Space Forum also provided NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and five of his predecessors...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… In Europe, Airbus achieves an integration milestone in the preparation of the European service module that is to provide power and propulsion for NASA’s Orion crew exploration capsule. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s return to the Moon with U.S. astronauts will prepare the technologies and capabilities necessary for the human exploration of Mars, Administrator Jim Bridenstine tells the annual AIAA Space Forum gathered in Orlando this week....
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… U.S. and Russian space agency heads Jim Bridenstine and Dmitry Rogozin agree to meet October 10, as a Russian led investigation into a small leak in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) continues. Jody Singer named...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA on Wednesday wrapped up a decade of testing the parachute recovery system for the Orion crew capsule. NASA exploration exec predicts the agency’s planned human tended lunar Gateway and science objectives will lead astronauts...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… International Space Station (ISS) commander Drew Feustel, of NASA, offered assurances on Tuesday, his crew was not responsible for a small hole discovered August 29-30 in one of two Soyuz crew transport capsules docked to the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s human tended lunar Gateway promises to be more than a space station. NASA’s soon to conclude Dawn mission finds the dwarf planet Ceres, another outer solar system body rich in water ice and a possibly habitable...
Coalition Statements

Coalition Statements

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2018 COALITION FOR DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION TAPS LONG-TIME CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER, CHRISTEN KAPAVIK, TO LEAD OPERATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration (Coalition) today announced Christen...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Parachute test helps prepare NASA’s Mars 2020 rover for its arrival at Mars. Researchers find the International Astronomical Union erred when it removed Pluto from “planet” status. Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls on future U.S....
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra…. Plans for NASA’s Gateway, a lunar orbiting, human tended space station continue to mature, though some experts wonder whether it should be staffed by astronauts. Roscosmos, the Russian state space agency, continues its investigation...