Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… President Trump wrapped up a Cabinet meeting Thursday with a tribute to U.S. rocket makers. Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot testifies before House Space Subcommittee about NASA’s proposed 2019 budget. China reveals broad plans for a...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Interest in NASA’s plans to return to the moon with human explorers is attracting the interest of other nations and scientists as well as those from the private sector. Astronauts from many nations say their time in space has...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA named its first spaceflight commander, Eileen Collins, 20 years ago this week. In Europe, a public/private partnership emerges for possible future International Space Station commercial activities. Scientists sound concerns...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… In an expression of bipartisan concern for the future of the International Space Station, U.S. senators Bill Nelson and Ted Cruz are calling on NASA to provide details of an overdue International Space Station strategy to transition...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA looks at possible Commercial Crew Program test flights with astronauts this year. The second in a new generation of NASA/NOAA weather satellites launched successfully on Thursday. NASA restructures oversight of its advanced...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA says current planning calls for modification of the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) that will support the first Space Launch System (SLS)/Orion mission in 2019 in order to support future flights of an upgraded SLS, rather than...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Two key U.S. senators make bipartisan call for White House to continue funding International Space Station operations until a capable private sector successor emerges. Three U.S. and Russian astronauts descend to Earth after 168 days...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Efforts to expand human activities in low Earth orbit as well as deep space are likely to require NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) as well as the best in new propulsion from the commercial space industry. But a debate is under...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) will continue to evolve and return to benefits to the American taxpayer. Cancelling WFIRST, an astrophysics priority, as proposed in NASA’s 2019 budget, will have negative impacts on...Space Talk
No, sending 6 people to Mars or to the Moon is not a a good investment. Specially since those billions could be use to provide Medicare for all Americans. Benefit millions of people or give a rocket ride to 6 people. Oh yeah, the inventions only help corporations not us #NASA 🤷♂️
Infrared lets us see what visible light can’t. 🌌
It can pass through cosmic dust and reveal hidden stars, warm dust, and regions where new stars are being born….giving us a different view of the Universe.
#space #spacetechnologies #nasa #astrophysics #physics #Astrología
Discover the incredible story of Voyager 1! Launched in 1977 with less computing power than a car key.
Watch its journey here:
#Voyager1 #NASA #Space
Swift has been in #space 22 years, studying the universe’s most powerful explosions. Now, it’s falling to Earth. NASA launched LINK to save it, but a failure sent LINK into an uncontrolled spin. Is that the end for #LINK and #Swift? Not quite!
https://earthsky.org/space/swift-spacecraft-boost-plunging-back-to-earth/
📸 NASA.
