Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s public/private NextSTEP collaboration with Lockheed Martin will repurpose a space shuttle cargo module into an elaborate ground based mockup of a possible deep space habitat. Human Space Exploration Shuttle-era cargo...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and its partner companies express new confidence 2018 will bring uncrewed and crewed test missions. Human Space Exploration NASA and companies express growing confidence in commercial crew...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Commercial interests emerging as a force in future human space activities. Human Space Exploration As innovators shoot for the moon, how will we regulate commerce? The Hill (7/19): A modern day version of the U.S. Homestead Act of...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Recent White House, NASA moves hold new promise for human deep space exploration — if they are matched with sufficient future resources and new efficiencies. Human Space Exploration Trump administration is making America a...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Orion spacesuits tested at NASA Johnson Space Center. Human Space Exploration Orion spacesuits put to a vacuum test at NASA Space.com (7/18): At NASA’s Johnson Space Center, engineers test an advanced version of the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Several companies offered the U.S. House Space Subcommittee a look at the potential of Solar Electric Propulsion as a source of advanced in space propulsion. Human Space Exploration Giving a push for in-space propulsion The Space...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Space explorers can reach the Martian surface by 2040, Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin tells a weekend Florida gala marking the anniversary of the first human lunar landing in 1969. Human Space Exploration Astronaut Buzz Aldrin rolls...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Orion and astronauts testing in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time. Human Space Exploration Orion testers make one giant leap into Gulf of Mexico Houston Chronicle (7/13): NASA for the first time incorporated astronauts into tests...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

 In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The Trump Administration is likely to pace the development of a new space policy, according to a White House transition team member. Human Space Exploration White House not expected to rush development of new space policy Space News...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The upper stage for the first launch of NASA’s Space Launch System, the Interim Cyrogenic Propulsion Stage, will undergo pre-launch processing in a large facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center once occupied by...