NASA’S NUSTAR SATELLITE OBSERVES “CHAMELEON SUPERNOVA”
Our bodies are largely composed of the material generated from nuclear reactions in ancient stars. And not only our bodies, but our planet and solar system as well. When a star explodes, newly-formed elements are ejected into the universe. When they explode, the...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A U.S. led global effort to reach Mars with human explorers could help restore humankind’s optimism in the future. Human Deep Space Exploration Why Mars? Because it will change our world for the better Huffington Post (1/24): If we settle...
ORION MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS IN 2016
Having already completed a successful test flight in 2014, NASA’s Orion capsule continues to prepared for its upcoming flight in 2018. The Orion spacecraft will launch on top of NASA’s new rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), for the first integrated flight in 2018....
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Ground tests of the European service module for NASA’s Orion capsule progress successfully. NASA prepares to honor Apollo 1 astronauts, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee, victims of a launch pad fire fifty years ago Friday. Human Deep...
HI-SEAS IS SIMULATING MARS ON HAWAII
How will we help our future astronauts prepare for the rigors and tribulations of exploring Mars? By starting with an eight-month stay in a well-isolated dome atop Mauna Loa on in Hawaii. Here, a NASA analog mission will study human behavior and performance in the...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Trump administration assigns first political appointees to NASA. Human Deep Space Exploration Renewed hope of a mission to Mars The Hill (1/21): An assessment of space policy setting legislation in the U.S. House and Senate underscores...
GEMINI-2 LAUNCHED 52 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
52 years ago yesterday, a mission was launched that played a critical part in paving the way for the Apollo program that would follow. NASA’s suborbital Gemini-2 mission launched on July 19, 1965 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It...
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...Space Talk
Wallops launched its first test rocket on June 27, 1945. The first research rocket, the Tiamat, launched just one week later. Wallops has grown from a small test range to a full-scale launch facility supporting small- to medium-size rocket launches, scientific balloon missions,
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.
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