TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Apollo 11 moves from Washington D.C. to Virginia in preparation for a future exhibit. Human Deep Space Exploration Smithsonian moving Apollo 11 spacecraft “Columbia” for conservation Collectspace (12/19): The temporary...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Experts differ on whether lunar resources will enable human deep space exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration Are lunar fuel depots needed for Mars missions? Space Review (12/19): Explore Mars’ Chris Carberry and Rich...
MORE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT NASA’S ORION SPACECRAFT
The importance of the many small businesses around the country that contribute to Orion cannot be overstated. Orion, the nation’s new deep space crew vehicle, is in development and will fly in 2018 on a mission past the moon and back to Earth. During this unmanned...
NASA workshops to determine Mars mission landing sites
A rocket is being assembled. A deep-space crew vehicle is being prepared. Habitats for deep space are being developed. Where are we headed? To Mars! Robotic exploration of the red planet is an important part of the Journey to Mars. NASA’s next rover is set to launch...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Components of NASA’s late 2018 Exploration Mission-1 test flight of the Space Launch System and Orion capsule are taking shape in the U.S. and Europe. Ohio paid tribute over the weekend to native son John Glenn, the first...
Mariner 2 first visited Venus this week in 1962
Humans have been looking up for a long time, full of curiosity about outer space. We’ve sent spacecraft hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour to learn about the wonders of the universe. In our own solar system, NASA has successfully sent...
Assembly complete on SLS’s Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage
Progress continues to be made toward future human missions into deep space. NASA is hard at work getting the Orion spacecraft ready for its flight in 2018 – the capsule that will take humans to multiple deep space destinations and return them safely to Earth....
The ISS has cataloged 90 billion cosmic ray events and counting
Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), there has been an ongoing study of something we still know very little about – cosmic rays. The possibilities of what we could learn from them are thrilling. We could learn about the imbalance between matter and...
More small businesses that support Orion and SLS
If you had more than 800 highly-skilled small businesses working together toward a common goal, what out-of-this-world endeavor could you imagine striving toward together? How about enabling humans to travel to deep space, not just to one location but multiple...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
