U.S. Navy and NASA practice recovering Orion in the Pacific
If you’re going to send humans deep into space, how do you make a spacecraft robust enough for the job? It’ll need several critical components, including a safe habitat with life support systems, propulsion while in space, water and air for crew members, and an escape...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, November 8, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… U.S. presidential contenders offer broad space policy objectives as anticipated close contest heads to a vote. Human Deep Space Exploration Closing arguments for space in the 2016 campaign The Space Review (11/7): Perhaps too little...Robotic missions for NASA’s next five years on Mars
Upcoming robotic missions to Mars, currently in development, will enable future exploration of the red planet. How were the rocky inner planets of the solar system formed? InSight–NASA’s upcoming mission to probe underneath Mars’ surface–will find out....Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 7, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Utah and Hawaii are providing backdrops as experts develop the protocols for future explorers assigned to gather samples of Martian rocks and soil. Human Deep Space Exploration A dress rehearsal for life on Mars Wall Street Journal...The spacecraft that photographed the Apollo landing sites launched 50 years ago
When former President John F. Kennedy made his legendary speech that directed the U.S. to land a man on the moon, he didn’t specify where. NASA had to figure it out. Fifty years ago this Sunday, NASA launched a spacecraft to take photos of the moon’s surface while in...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, November 4, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The moon emerges once again as a potential destination for international explorers. Human Deep Space Exploration An international outpost near the Moon gets closer to reality Planetary Society (11/3): NASA and its International Space...SLS design being tested for extreme thermal conditions
When NASA’s new rocket blasts off in 2018, it will heat up on its way to space. This first launch of the rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), will send a spacecraft designed to take humans on deep space missions beyond the moon. The new spacecraft is Orion. After...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, November 3, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The processing of lunar resources for commercial applications could be a key to U.S. preeminence in space, according to key U.S. lawmaker. Human Deep Space Exploration Bridenstine: This is our Sputnik moment & the Moon will...New Horizons uploads the last of its data from Pluto
When the New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, we got our first closeup glimpse of this mysterious world three billion miles away. New Horizons launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2006. The spacecraft flew by Pluto in 2015, coming closest to the icy...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
