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...
Deep Space Extra for Thursday, June 2, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Pros and cons and potential changes in NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission. Human Deep Space Exploration Will NASA’s ARM mission to an asteroid be cancelled? Spaceflight Insider (6/1): As part of their budget deliberations, U.S....
ORBITAL ATK CONDUCTS TEST OF ANTARES FIRST STAGE
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, today announced it conducted a full-power “hot fire” test of the upgraded first stage propulsion system of its Antares medium-class rocket using new RD-181 main engines. The...
James Webb Space Telescope’s Science Package is now installed
Far away just got a lot closer. Through the incredible capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), our knowledge of the universe will soon be considerably enhanced. JWST’s science instrument package was just installed into the telescope. This exciting...Space Talk
Did you know the @Space_Station is restocked with food every 60 to 90 days? During these resupply missions, @NASA can send a wide variety of food items including fresh foods, pizza kits, and even real ice cream!
Stop by the NASA exhibit at the Great American State Fair all week
Did you know the @Space_Station is restocked with food every 60 to 90 days? During these resupply missions, @NASA can send a wide variety of food items including fresh foods, pizza kits, and even real ice cream!
Stop by the NASA exhibit at the Great American State Fair all week
HiRISE 3D: A Possible Eroded Dyke System in Atlantis Chaos
These dykes would be intruding into sediments of probable lacustrine origin, deposited in this basin of the southern cratered highlands.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_092224_1450_ESP_092593_1450_RED
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Joe Engle—age 32—flew the X-15 OTD in 1965 to an altitude of more than 50 miles, qualifying for astronaut wings under the USAF definition.
He was selected to become a NASA astronaut the following year and was the only person to have flown both the X-15 and the Space Shuttle.
@NASAhistory Sorry I don't know this, did I fly the shuttle to space, or did he only fly the pictured Enterprise?
@TNCannuck In addition to flying a few of the Approach and Landing Tests aboard Enterprise, Engle commanded the second shuttle mission (STS-2) aboard Columbia as well as STS-51I aboard Discovery.