Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA, United Launch Alliance (ULA) prepare the Mars Insight lander for a Saturday launch attempt. Pre-launch testing finds the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have a fastener issue. The internet competes with space industry for...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… White House official foresees the Moon as a critical “first stop” for human deep space explorers. Boeing’s CEO predicts thriving low Earth orbit economy. NASA unveils fission reactor for planetary surface...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA clears the Mars Insight lander’s heat shield for launch on Saturday. NASA looks to the U.S. private sector for future lunar lander missions. The annual U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of NASA’s major...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Houston lawmaker urges NASA and its contractors ahead with development of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion crew capsule. NASA readies InSight, the nation’s next mission to Mars, for a Saturday liftoff. China’s new...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Space exploration benefits cross the globe. Blue Origin suborbital test flight succeeds. NASA to repair Mars 2020 rover heat shield crack in time for mid-2020 launch. NASA looks to commercial space for wider role in lunar resource...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Competition for launch contracts increasing and American human spaceflight systems approach operational status. China seeks international participation in its soon to be launched space station. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) to...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA official outlines plan to accelerate first launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion with astronauts on board. Human Space Exploration Exploration Mission-2 gets a re-do Spacepolicyonline.com (4/25): NASA is revising...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA looks to award a contract for the first component of a human tended Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway next year. The U.S. House passes legislation affecting the regulation of future commercial space activities. China offers a...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…Jim Bridenstine was sworn in Monday as NASA’s Administrator by Vice President Mike Pence. NASA ground systems development for the Space Launch System (SLS) may offer options to launch planetary science as well as human deep...Space Talk
Idk maybe developing and building 8-meter wide, carbon composite, human rated, deployable structures is gonna be a little expensive especially over a decade and a bit
Before @NASAAdmin killed the Exploration Upper Stage, the space agency was on track to pay HALF A BILLION dollars for development of a simple stage adaptor between the upper stage and Orion.
https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/nasas-management-of-programs-and-projects-after-mission-termination-canceled-or-repurposed-artemis-campaign-systems/
@Arkshol93 Yeah that’s the expensive part, it shouldn’t, but SLS got planned out over the course of 2 decades because of flat NASA budgeting
@Arkshol93 Like, we shouldn’t have even ever had ICPS. It’s the *interim* stage for a reason, EUS was too expensive year-to-year to develop concurrently with SLS. But you pay now or pay more later…
Breakups are hard 💔
Unless it’s stuff breaking up in Earth’s atmosphere. Then it’s just cool! A @Space_Station astronaut captured an object breaking up in the atmosphere on April 27. It could have been part of a rocket, satellite, other human-made space debris, or a meteor.
SpaceX is preparing to launch its first Starfall reentry capsule as a technology demonstration. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 UTC).
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Update: we made a baby to help save the planet 🙈🐣❤️
Well, Seoul will always be special to me now that I got engaged there!
Now it’s time to make some babies to save the planet 🤣🙏😍
4-10-2025 🌸❤️😍