The BASALT Project is simulating Mars missions on Earth

Space mission analogues are important for providing us with valuable knowledge about places humans have not yet been. Earlier this month, a project finished a field test in an environment similar to that of Mars – the lava flows of Mauna Ulu in Hawaii. Here, the...

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 28, 2016

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The challenges of reaching Mars with human explorers hold economic dividends through the innovations that will be required to address them. Human Deep Space Exploration Kerner: Our path to Mars needs to look beyond the launch Houston...

Small businesses are critical to the Orion Program

NASA’s Orion program supports more than 800 small businesses in almost every state across the country. Orion is the nation’s new spacecraft designed to take humans to multiple deep space destinations. It will not only take humans to deep space and return them to...

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, November 22, 2016

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The human exploration of Mars awaits action to go with inspiration, suggests a lifelong student of NASA’s Apollo initiative. Valuable lunar and asteroid resources could lure the private section along. Human Deep Space...

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 21, 2016

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Decisions on the 2017 federal budget and space policy await the new president and Congress. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft delivered U.S., Russian and European astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday. Human Deep Space...

MAVEN launched on this day in 2013

Now successfully orbiting Mars, NASA’s schoolbus-sized MAVEN spacecraft launched three years ago today. By looking at atmospheric gases and how they’re lost to space, the mission will infer how Mars’ climate has changed over its history. What impact did the loss of...

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, November 18, 2016

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… U.S. commercial space pioneer calls for larger NASA budget. Astronauts from four countries launch to and descend from two Earth-orbiting space stations. Human Deep Space Exploration Bigelow calls on Trump to sharply increase NASA...

CDSE’s Roadmap for Trump Administration

Within days of last week’s election, industry and popular support for the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration’s Presidential transition policy position paper is building.  The paper, entitled “A Space Exploration Roadmap for the Next Administration,” presents a...

Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, November 17, 2016

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA stands ready to receive President-elect Trump’s transition team but it may be awhile due to changes in the transition team’s leadership. Human Deep Space Exploration No transition team for NASA “at this...