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...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...Space Talk
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