Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, November 16, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA preps to assess the brute strength of the Space Launch System exploration rocket. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA shows how close its SLS rocket is to getting a ‘fatal’ squeeze Huntsville Times (11/15): Experts at...Orion testing validates its human deep space mission
NASA’s new spacecraft for humans launches in 2018 on top of NASA’s new rocket, and we already know about how the spacecraft will perform during flight. How? A test flight was successfully completed back in 2014. This spacecraft, Orion, will carry crews deeper into...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, November 15, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA and its Journey to Mars await Trump transition team contact. U.S. and Russian lunar exploration advocates see new hope. Human Deep Space Exploration Next steps for space policy The Space Review (11/14): Those steps fall...A photographic history of Mars
We’ve come a long way from the first observation of Mars through a telescope to the present day where rovers drive across its surface. It’s exciting to explore something that once only existed as a speck in our sky. More than 400 years ago, Galileo Galilei was the...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 14, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Experts discuss President-elect Trump’s space priorities and possible choices for NASA administrator. Human Mars mission drama premieres tonight. Human Deep Space Exploration Trump space policy to aim for Mars and beyond...Gemini 12 launched 50 years ago today
A historic space mission launched 50 years ago today – it would be the last in a series of missions before NASA’s Apollo program begun and landed humans on moon. The program was Gemini; it tested many important components that would become part of the Apollo...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, November 11, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Upcoming National Geographic cable series, Mars, will take viewers through the challenges of a human mission based on the views of top experts. Human Deep Space Exploration New NatGeo Mars series blends today’s realities with...SLS Highlights for October
Eventually launching payloads destined for deep space, NASA’s new rocket continues its progress toward the very first launch in 2018. The new rocket is Space Launch System, or SLS. On its first mission, SLS will carry Orion, NASA’s new crew capsule. The mission will...James Webb Space Telescope finishes production, enters testing phase
Launching in 2018 will be the successor to the legendary Hubble Space Telescope, called the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. What will the telescope do? JWST will help us understand the Universe. It will study the timespan from our solar system’s evolution all the...Space Talk
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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
