TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A future human Mars mission could offer President-elect Trump one means of unifying the nation, according to a Washington pre-inaugural assessment. Human Deep Space Exploration Will Trump echo JFK’s moonshot and vow to send...
SLS HIGHLIGHTS FOR DECEMBER
December was a busy month for America’s new rocket that will take humans into deep space. NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, made massive headway toward its first launch. SLS will head off toward deep space for the first time in 2018. On its inaugural flight, the...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Explore Mars outlines reasons for red planet exploration. In Hawaii, six scientist/volunteers set out on an eight month Mars mission simulation. Human Deep Space Exploration Six essential reasons why we need to send humans to Mars...
Mud cracks on Mars?
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently examined slabs of rock that, if interpreted correctly, would be the first mud cracks confirmed by the mission. This would confirm that some drying occurred after wetter conditions in the ancient era during which these sediments were...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Robert Lightfoot, NASA’s associate administrator, will lead NASA temporarily as President-elect Trump takes office on Friday. Lightfoot offered an optimistic outlook for the agency before a space business gathering on Tuesday....
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Eugene Cernan, who commanded Apollo 17, the final human mission to the Moon, has died. The retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy aviator urged a return to the lunar surface to start an inspiring new era of human deep space...
THE “PROVING GROUND” FOR ORION AND SLS
Proving systems in the proving ground? NASA is working on the Journey to Mars, but an important step before going to Mars will take place in the proving ground. This is an area of space around the moon where NASA will test America’s next spacecraft, Orion. This...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Mars beckons as a destination for human exploration according to experts. Human Deep Space Exploration Why Mars is the best planet The Atlantic (1/13): The passage of time, four billion years, has separated Mars and the Earth. The...
NASA’S DEEP IMPACT MISSION LAUNCHED 12 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Before NASA’s Deep Impact mission, humanity had never probed beneath the surface of a comet. Launched 12 years ago yesterday on January 12, 2005, the mission released a robotic impactor on a comet called Tempel 1. Named after Ernst Tempel who discovered the comet in...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
