Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

Human Deep Space Exploration Don’t expect a space race. SpaceX and NASA need each other Los Angeles Times (3/5): NASA and SpaceX have recently announced similar goals, launching humans around the moon and returning them to Earth. However, that doesn’t mean...
America’s first deep space probe was launched 58 years ago today

America’s first deep space probe was launched 58 years ago today

In the history of NASA’s space exploration, many missions have left Earth orbit and ventured far out into deep space. We have visited every planet in the solar system, but what was the very first spacecraft to leave Earth’s gravity? NASA’s Pioneer 4 mission launched...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Space entrepreneur Jeff Bezos proposes a commercial cargo service for the re-supply of a human lunar base. Human Deep Space Exploration An exclusive look at Jeff Bezos’s plan to set up Amazon-like delivery for ‘future human...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA

  In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Bill Gerstenmaier, who leads the agency’s human spaceflight efforts, considers the risks and benefits of adding astronauts to the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System and Orion crew exploration capsule. Human...
Space Science

Space Science

Who could have known that the constellation Aquarius, which means the Water Bearer, would have so many planets that could have liquid water around a single star? Last week, NASA announced an astonishing discovery – seven Earth-size planets have been found...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… President Trump offers encouraging words for future human space exploration in his first address to Congress. Human Deep Space Exploration Trump invokes dream of footprints on distant worlds Spacepolicyonline.com (3/1): “American...
The small businesses building Orion

The small businesses building Orion

Behind our nation’s next-generation spacecraft are hundreds of small businesses all throughout the country. Spread throughout the country are a veritable battalion of small businesses – over 800 of them! – that are supporting the development of a spacecraft that will...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… SpaceX announces plans to send two passengers to the moon and back before the end of next year. NASA continues to examine the risks and benefits of adding astronauts to the EM-1 mission. Human Deep Space Exploration SpaceX plans to send 2...