Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, December 5, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA unveils a possible less demanding version of its first crewed Orion test flight. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA considers shorter first crewed SLS/Orion mission Space News (12/2): Exploration Mission-2, planned by NASA as the...43 years ago, we first visited Jupiter
Forty-three years ago tomorrow, a special event took place at the largest planet in our solar system – NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft became the first ever to fly past Jupiter! It occurred on December 3, 1973. Check out the view as Pioneer 10 approached Jupiter...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, December 2, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… After becoming ill in Antarctica, Apollo 11 moon-walker Buzz Aldrin, 86, was evacuated to New Zealand where he is now in “stable” condition. A Russian cargo capsule launched to the International Space Station instead broke up in the...Congresswoman Sanchez visits Coalition member VACCO Industries
Last week, Congresswoman Linda Sánchez visited VACCO Industries and received an overview of the company’s Space and Defense businesses. The Congresswoman toured VACCO’s manufacturing facilities, particularly those that are participating in NASA’s Space Launch System...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, December 1, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The first 100 days of the new U.S. administration and Congress seem likely to hold suspense for the space community. Human Deep Space Exploration Trump’s first 100 days: Space Scientific America (11/30): NASA’s current...The BEAM module on the ISS is performing admirably
Attached to the laboratory that orbits Earth at 17,500mph is an exciting mission – it’s a habitat for astronauts that gets bigger when it’s in space! The laboratory is the International Space Station (ISS), a unique platform that has had a continuous...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, November 30, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… President-elect Trump’s transition team assigns its first NASA representative, Chris Shank, who worked for a previous agency administrator, Mike Griffin. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA gets first “landing party”...Small businesses are building our next spacecraft all across the country
Last week, we looked into a few of the small businesses that are essential in the next steps of human space exploration. There are more than 800 overall – these businesses are making critical contributions toward NASA’s Orion crew vehicle that will take humans...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, November 29, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Space exploration advocates offer bipartisan recommendations to President-elect Trump and a new Congress on how to overcome the obstacles and advance the pursuit of human space exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration AIA, CSE call...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
