InSight receives final approval for a spring 2018 launch
Insights about the depths of Mars will soon be revealed with NASA’s new mission, InSight. Earlier this month, the mission received its final approval to launch during the spring of 2018. What new knowledge will InSight bring to us? How are rocky planets formed,...Surveyor 5 landed on the moon 49 years ago this week
Would it be safe for NASA to land humans on the moon? It was Surveyor’s job to find out. Before Apollo, NASA’s Surveyor program tested methods of landing and sent back close-up images of the moon’s surface. One of the program’s spacecraft, Surveyor 5, was launched 49...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, September 9, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s bold, seven-year Osiris-Rex asteroid mission seeks insight into planet forming processes, emergence of life on Earth. Space Science OSIRIS-REx probe launched to asteroid in compelling search for the origins of life...Prepare for a rendezvous with Bennu
NASA’s mission that will return an asteroid sample launches today! The mission, OSIRIS-REx, will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. Upon arrival, the spacecraft will thoroughly map the asteroid and potential sampling sites. It will document properties of...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, September 8, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA is building and testing hardware needed to backup plans to resume human deep space exploration Human Deep Space Exploration NASA already described its plan for reaching Mars. Now it showed us the hardware Yahoo! Tech (9/4):...The OSIRIS-REx sample return mission launches tomorrow
Embarking on its mission tomorrow, OSIRIS-REx begins an exciting journey to collect and return a small asteroid sample to Earth! NASA’s mission will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida atop an Atlas V rocket. It’s target is an asteroid named Bennu that was discovered...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, September 7, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The challenge of exploring Mars with humans could offer nations a reason to work together and opportunities to build their economies. Human Deep Space Exploration The best reason to go to Mars The Space Review (9/6): A difficult...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, September 6, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA experts say the technologies for productive human exploration of Mars are starting to emerge. Human Deep Space Exploration We Could Have Reached Mars in the ’70s. Here’s Why We Didn’t Inverse (9/4): NASA...Coalition for Deep Space Exploration Member Futuramic Recognized by Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration (Coalition) is pleased one of its members, Futuramic Tool & Engineering (Futuramic), was recognized yesterday by Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton as “being on the front lines of a...Space Talk
#Spazio, #ESA vs #NASA, #Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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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
