Deep Space Extra for Friday, June 24, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA pursues new thinking, innovation and diversity as it prepares for the human exploration of Mars and a permanent deep space presence. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA officials, astronauts outline NASA’s crewed Mars...
Acoustic tests performed on Orion’s Service Module
On track to launch in 2018, NASA’s new Orion crew capsule continues to make progress. What’s the latest with the spacecraft that will take humans into deep space? A structural representation of the service module – the part that will supply power, propulsion and...
Deep Space Extra for Friday, May 27, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra… Scientists find dramatic changes in Martian climate. Space Science Mars’ ice age may have turned the red planet white 370,000 years ago Mashable (5/26): Cold and dry now, Mars has been wildly different environmentally within the...
Bigelow Aerospace is working with NASA to permanently inhabit space
Bigelow isn’t only working on expanding its modules–the company is helping to expand our reach into deep space. With one of its modules attached to the International Space Station (ISS) and a larger habitat under development, Bigelow is moving forward with...
New Study Offers New Theory of Black Hole Formation
Gigantic black holes – where did they come from? A new study could provide the answer. New evidence suggests that massive black hole seeds are formed from the collapse of giant gas clouds. A supermassive black hole is at the center of nearly all large galaxies....
Deep Space Extra for Thursday, May 26, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra…The U.S. House joined its Senate appropriations colleagues this week in backing continued development of the Space Launch System, the exploration rocket intended to start NASA astronauts on future missions of deep space exploration....
The ISS’s new Bigelow Expandable Activity Module expands tomorrow
Lettuce can grow on the International Space Station. But can a habitat? Tomorrow, for the first time, an inflatable module attached to the International Space Station will be expanding. The module is called BEAM, which stands for Bigelow Expandable Activity Module....
Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, May 25, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…The U.S. House Appropriations Committee approves a $19.5 billion spending measure for NASA during the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, a $223 million increase. Human Deep Space Exploration House appropriators have big plans for NASA...
The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration Applauds House NASA Funding Bill
The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration (Coalition) applauds House Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee (CJS) Chairman John Culberson, Ranking Member Mike Honda and the entire Appropriations Committee for its exceptional support for NASA’s human and...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
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars #NASA
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.