Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, September 15, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission would play a significant part of efforts to reach the Martian environs with human explorers in the 2030s. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA Hopes to Catch an Asteroid Voice of America (9/14):...New foam insulation is being developed for SLS
NASA’s new launch vehicle, Space Launch System (SLS), will usher in a new age of exciting missions into space in the coming years. The rocket will take flight for the first time in 2018 on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). SLS will launch a spacecraft that will venture...Juno reveals new info, images of Jupiter’s poles
Ever seen Jupiter’s poles before NASA’s Juno mission? Don’t worry, no one else had either! When Juno flew by Jupiter late last month, the mission achieved the first of 36 orbital flybys. The spacecraft flew approximately 2,500 miles above the giant planet’s clouds....Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, September 14, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton offers support for human Mars exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration Clinton supports human Mars exploration Space News (9/13): U.S. presidential contender Hillary Clinton pledged support for...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, September 13, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The U.S. led International Space Station, staffed continuously since late 2000, might thrive as a commercial endeavor while serving as a financial resource for human deep space exploration, according to an op-ed. Human Deep Space...Orion’s thruster propellant lines have been welded
A bunch of pipes were welded together in Florida last month. Why does this matter? They’re not just any old pipes – they’re pipes for fuel. What’s the fuel for? Thrusters on a spacecraft that will take humans deeper into space than they’ve ever gone...Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, September 12, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, workers are carefully assembling an Orion spacecraft for the first test flight of the Space Launch System, Exploration Mission-1. The late 2018 launch will send an unpiloted Orion capsule on a...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...Space Talk
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Wallops launched its first test rocket on June 27, 1945. The first research rocket, the Tiamat, launched just one week later. Wallops has grown from a small test range to a full-scale launch facility supporting small- to medium-size rocket launches, scientific balloon missions,
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1.8 billion years ago, a comet struck modern-day Sudbury, Ontario, resulting in a 62 km-long impact crater and large mineral deposits, including nickel. Deep underground today, Sudbury’s SNOLAB researches dark matter. Had you heard of Sudbury’s #space connection?☄️🌌⛏️
