Nov 28, 2016
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...
Nov 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...
Nov 22, 2016
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...
Nov 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...
Nov 21, 2016
What makes an environment Mars-like? It needs to be remote and extreme, have no vegetation, and be dry and rocky with freezing temperatures. Way up in Arctic Canada, there’s a place that meets all of these qualifications. When an asteroid or comet slammed into the...
Nov 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...
Nov 18, 2016
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...
Nov 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...
Nov 17, 2016
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...
Nov 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...