IT’S A BUMPY RIDE TO SPACE!
It’s a bumpy ride to space! So how does NASA make sure its massive new telescope headed to space can withstand the shaking of a rocket ride? Shake it on the ground! At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the new space telescope that will examine every...
ORION, THE NEW CREW VEHICLE, IS NOT ONLY DESIGNED TO SEND HUMANS TO ONE DESTINATION BUT TO MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS.
With the ongoing and essential work of small businesses around the country, a new spacecraft is being built for missions to carry humans to new and exciting deep space destinations. Orion, the new crew vehicle, is not only designed to send humans to one destination...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… New strides in human space exploration and operations will require a deeper understanding of the risks as well as the rewards, one space veteran counsels. Human Deep Space Exploration Recalculating risk The Space Review (2/13): U.S....
IF YOU WERE SENDING A SPACECRAFT TO ANOTHER PLANET, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW WHERE TO LAND?
If you were sending a spacecraft to another planet, how would you know where to land? Last week, participants of a landing site workshop met to discuss just that for NASA’s 2020 rover that will land on Mars. The list of potential sites was narrowed down during the...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Trump administration backs the Space Launch System and Orion as it weighs future role for “new space.” Human Deep Space Exploration The big changes that may (not) be coming to NASA Space News (2/10): The Trump administration has signaled...
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE IS LEGENDARY
Hubble Space Telescope is legendary. With its mind-blowing views of the universe that it takes in from an outpost orbiting our planet, Hubble continues to bring the discoveries of the universe back to Earth. When it launched in 1990, it was the most significant...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s human deep space exploration plans primed to spur innovation, jobs. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA Space Launch System opens pathway to Mars — and thousands of jobs on Earth Forbes.com (2/9): NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion...
MORE OF THE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE MAKING SLS A REALITY
NASA is creating a new launch vehicle for deep space exploration, but they couldn’t do it without support from small businesses all around the country. The nation’s new rocket is Space Launch System (SLS), and it launches for the first time next year. On this first...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Space Launch System, a cornerstone of U.S. human deep space exploration planning, receives an endorsement from the U.S. commercial space sector, which may influence Trump administration policy makers on the SLS’s future. Human Deep...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
