Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA announced investments in new low Earth orbit and deep space technologies on Wednesday, public/private agreements to expand human as well as robotic activities. NASA preps the Parker Solar Probe mission for a launch early Saturday....
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) assesses NASA’s planetary science missions. Planet-hunting Kepler telescope wakes up, phones home. Human Space Exploration Rocket City, Alabama: Space history and an eye on the future Coalition...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s planned human tended Gateway has experts discussing the possibilities as well as the challenges. NASA pushing science potential for small satellites. The Perseid meteor show peaks. Human Space Exploration First major...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA assigns eight astronauts to the first crewed missions of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Dragon 2, a milestone in the nation’s efforts to restore a human space launch capability. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin staffs...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… New dates emerge for the first uncrewed and crewed test flights of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program partners, Boeing and its CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX and its Dragon 2. NASA is to announce astronaut flight crew assignments today....
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… U.S. Senate and White House urge support for space exploration, with the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee supporting sustained NASA involvement in the International Space Station to 2030 and the Trump Administration...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Plans for the future human exploration of Mars may well require the research capabilities of a functioning International Space Station beyond 2025, policy makers suggest. Human Space Exploration Human exploration and the International...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… New government audits challenge a NASA transition away from the International Space Station by 2025, while suggesting it may be too soon for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program to set initial launch dates for the Boeing CST-100...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is close to restoring U.S. human spacecraft launches. Flight assignments are to be announced on Friday. NASA’s recently launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellites (TESS) has started its...Space Talk
Is it just us or do you see a shark? 👀
This superbubble in star cluster NGC 1929 may resemble one. But how? Massive new stars create radiation, quickly expel matter, and race through their evolution to explode as supernovae. Their outflows and shock waves sculpt these cavities.
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There's a solar eclipse happening on Wednesday, Aug. 12 — and if you're not in the path of totality, you can watch along with us online! Get the details: https://go.nasa.gov/4ftKdXd
There's a solar eclipse happening on Wednesday, Aug. 12 — and if you're not in the path of totality, you can watch along with us online! Get the details: https://go.nasa.gov/4ftKdXd
HiPOD: Hydrated Sulfates in Columbus Crater
From HiWish: “An area of mineralogic interest identified by CRISM, which lacks HiRISE coverage.” Sulfate-rich rock outcrops on Mars may be a good location to search for evidence of past life on the planet.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077152_1510
