TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Historic moon-landing spacecraft hardware to tour U.S. to mark Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary. Human Deep Space Exploration The Apollo 11 capsule is going on an American road trip USA Today (2/22): The Smithsonian Institution plans to take...
NASA TO SEND A SPACECRAFT TO STUDY EUROPA
Curious about the icy moon of Jupiter? So is NASA! That’s why they’re sending a spacecraft to study Europa. Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, could have an ocean of liquid water underneath its icy surface. NASA will soon send a mission to the mysterious far-off moon and...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Engineering researcher envisions deep space habitats fabricated with 3-D printing. China looks to Mars exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration Meet the man working with NASA to 3D print a colony on Mars CNN (2/22): At the...
TO CREW OR NOT TO CREW?
That is the question to which NASA’s Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot is seeking an answer. Last week, Lightfoot directed that a feasibility study be conducted on whether the first “Exploration Mission” flight – EM-1 – could be a crewed mission rather than the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Support surfaces for a NASA study of what it would take to add astronauts to Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket and Orion crew capsule. The EM-1 astronauts would loop...
TODAY IS THE 52ND ANNIVERSARY OF RANGER 8’S LAUNCH
Before humans could land on the moon, NASA had to learn about the lunar surface. Launched 52 years ago today, NASA’s Ranger 8 mission set off for the moon and captured more than 7,000 images of the lunar surface. Ranger 8 launched on February 17, 1965 from Cape...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Experts favor a return to the moon with human explorers in testimony before a U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing on Thursday. Human Deep Space Exploration Moon is star of congressional hearing on NASA’s future USA...
SMALL BUSINESSES THAT BUILD BIG ROCKETS
Building the nation’s new giant rocket are hundreds of small businesses across the country. From 43 states, more than 800 companies have contributed to NASA’s deep space exploration rocket. The new rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), will launch next year. One of the...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, in a headline-making proposal, directs the agency to consider assigning astronauts to Exploration Mission-1, the first launch of the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket and Orion crew capsule....Space Talk
#Spazio, #ESA vs #NASA, #Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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Spazio, ESA vs NASA, Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri...
Spazio, ESA vs NASA, Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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How do you know an elephant was in the refrigerator? The footprints in the butter!
@NASARoman will use a similar technique to study neutron stars, essentially invisible crushed cores of former massive stars, relying on their effects on other stars.
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Name a better office view. 🧑🚀🌎
#OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4.
WFC3 provides images across three broad regions of light: ultraviolet, visible, and into the near-infrared! Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/439kDQe
To build on the Moon, we need construction materials that can withstand bitter cold – so @NASAglenn invented a machine that can recreate that environment for testing!
This high-powered refrigerator, or cryocooler, removes heat without using any liquid. https://go.nasa.gov/3PGqIR9
