The James Webb Space Telescope – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Hubble was legendary, and its successor is going to be nothing short of incredible. Motivated by Hubble’s results, NASA’s new space telescope will help us understand every phase of the history of the universe. It’s called the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It will...
Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, June 8, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Space policy veteran finds NASA’s proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission a valuable step in the Journey to Mars. Human Deep Space Exploration Op-Ed | Saving NASA’s ARM and the Journey to Mars Space News (6/7): U.S. House...
Shooting for the moon is closer than ever before
An exciting prize combined with breakthrough collaborations is helping to fuel the expansion of robotic deep space exploration and science. With the incentive of Google’s Lunar XPrize competition, many teams around the world are competing for their moonshot. The...
Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, June 7, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Obama Administration to address oversight of future U.S. commercial deep space ventures. Human Deep Space Exploration White House works out a process to clear commercial missions to moon and Mars GeekWire (6/6): The Department of...
NASA’s industry partners are building the pathway to Mars
Key capabilities for the Journey to Mars are being developed by members of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration. Boeing is the prime contractor for the core stage and avionics of NASA’s new rocket, Space Launch System (SLS). Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor...
Deep Space Extra for Monday, June 6, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s plans to resume human deep space exploration likely to combine new hardware with astronauts skilled in leadership and teamwork as well as engineering and the sciences. Human Deep Space Exploration Astronaut Drew Feustel...
Gemini 4, with the first American spacewalk, launched 51 years ago today
There have been hundreds of American spacewalks. When was the first? Fifty-one years ago today, the mission that included the first American spacewalk launched from Cape Canaveral. The mission was Gemini 4. Launched on June 3, 1965, NASA’s Gemini 4 was the first...
Deep Space Extra for Friday, June 3, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… New observations with the Hubble Space Telescope find the universe expanding faster than previous estimates. Human Deep Space Exploration The last man on the moon pauses for a special reunion Canberra Times, of Australia (6/2): Gene...
The final three CubeSats for EM-1 have been announced
Orion won’t have NASA’s new rocket all to itself. Sharing the ride with this new crew capsule will be 13 secondary payloads – the last three of which were just announced last week. These secondary payloads are small satellites known as CubeSats. This is an...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
