SLS TESTING VERIFYING MULTIPLE ROCKET CONFIGURATIONS
Before enabling exciting future deep space missions, America’s new rocket is undergoing some important tests around the country. Space Launch System (SLS), is powerful, evolvable, and will enable increasingly complex missions. At 322 feet tall, the first configuration...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… President-elect Trump is intrigued by a human lunar base, according to a prominent presidential historian. Maybe the U.S. should follow the transcontinental railroad and Interstate highway system with a “super highway”...
VIBRATION TESTING TO RESUME ON THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will not only be the successor to the legendary Hubble Space Telescope, but the planet’s leading observatory for the next decade. Out in deep space, JWST will help us answer some deep questions. Unlike the Hubble Space...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Experts debate the effectiveness of a new cabinet-level National Space Council and other changes the administration of President-elect Trump might bring to U.S. space exploration planning. Human Deep Space Exploration Is creating a...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The new year opens with speculation on who will lead NASA in President-elect Trump’s administration and whether Mars will remain the horizon goal for human deep space exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration GOP Rep. Jim...
Guest Blog: A Personal Remembrance of Dr. Piers Sellers
This is the first in a series of personal blogs that the Coalition will begin featuring from members of the entire human spaceflight community, who will comment on whatever they choose. Our first in this series is by Madi Sengupta, who was a NASA Shuttle and Space...
COALITION STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF PIERS SELLERS
It is with a profound sadness that the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration notes the passing of Dr. Piers J. Sellers, Director of Earth Sciences at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, and former astronaut, on December 23. He was 61. Piers Sellers was known throughout...
SLS LIQUID HYDROGEN TANK PREPARING FOR FRICTION PLUG WELDING
NASA’s new rocket keeps moves forward toward its liftoff in 2018. Blasting off into space on its first flight, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) will usher in a new era of deep space exploration. Evolvable and able to support missions to multiple destinations, SLS is...TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Experts in the U.S. and Europe plan for deep space human settlements. Hollywood finds new drama in the journey to distant worlds. Human Deep Space Exploration ‘Mars Ice Home’: Team chips away at off-Earth house’s...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
