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....
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA awaits word from the new Trump administration on human space exploration planning. Human Deep Space Exploration Cabana: NASA, KSC awaiting direction from Trump administration Florida Today (2/14): In remarks Tuesday before the...
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...Space Talk
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The future of space will be built through collaboration.
#NASA has selected 41 technology proposals from 37 companies, proving that the biggest breakthroughs happen when bold ideas meet shared expertise.
From enabling a sustained human presence on the #Moon to preparing for the
1.8 billion years ago, a comet struck modern-day Sudbury, Ontario, resulting in a 62 km-long impact crater and large mineral deposits, including nickel. Deep underground today, Sudbury’s SNOLAB researches dark matter. Had you heard of Sudbury’s #space connection?☄️🌌⛏️
HiPOD: Sedimentary Rocks inside Terby Crater
This image covers some steep slopes with good exposures of the bedrock layers, revealing diverse color and textures. A detailed study can reconstruct the sequence of events and interpret the geologic history.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072620_1530
