Nov 30, 2016
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...
Nov 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”...
Nov 29, 2016
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...
Nov 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...
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...