TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA intends to spend a month assessing the risks and benefits of adding two astronauts to the first test launch of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule. The change to Exploration Mission-1 could offer an advantage if it...
Space Shuttle Discovery flew for the final time six years ago today
Discovery’s final mission brought important upgrades to the International Space Station After 38 missions into space, NASA’s space shuttle Discovery launched for the last time six years ago today. Six astronauts flew onboard this mission known as STS-133: Commander...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A NASA safety advisory panel examines the risks and challenges of assigning astronauts to the agency’s previously unpiloted Exploration Mission-1, the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule. Human...
THE SMALL BUSINESSES SUPPORTING SLS’S ENORMOUS SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS
Two massive solid rocket boosters will be part of the nation’s new deep space rocket, Space Launch System (SLS). The new rocket will take human and robotic explorers missions to destinations in deep space. The most powerful solid propellant booster ever built, the...
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...Space Talk
🚀 20 de octubre, 4:41 a.m.: Japón lanza una sonda para aterrizar en una luna de Marte y traer un trozo a casa.
MMX apunta a Fobos: 27 km de ancho, da 3 vueltas a Marte al día. Recogerá 10 g y volverá en 2031.
JAXA cree que el 0,1% podría ser Marte.
#MMX #Fobos #JAXA #CoheteH3
☀️ STUNNING: This incredible timelapse of the Sun was created from 40,000 photos captured over just 3 hours using a solar telescope.
The result is a mesmerizing look at our star in motion — revealing constantly changing solar activity in breathtaking detail.
#Sun #Space
How long would it take to reach each planet in our Solar System from Earth? 🚀
8 Months to Venus, 1.4 Years to Mars, but a whopping 27.6 Years to Neptune and 37 Years to Pluto! 🤯
Space is unbelievably vast. 🌌 #Space #Astronomy #Universe
The Universe is full of invisible radiation …but this is the tiny part we can actually see. 👁️🌌
Visible light is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet it reveals stars, galaxies, nebulae, and planets directly to our eyes and telescopes.
#space #nasa #light
