Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, May 13, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The Orion capsule assigned to the first Space Launch System test flight achieves a key milestone. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA’s Orion spacecraft doesn’t crack under pressure Popular Science (5/12): The pressure...
SLS boosters made huge progress in April
Building a rocket takes time, but NASA is on track to launch the world’s biggest rocket in 2018. Here’s a brief recap of last month’s progress on Space Launch System (SLS): –New test structures for the rocket are being constructed, which will be used for...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, May 12, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Orion Spacecraft undergoes pressure testing for EM-1 flight. Human Deep Space Exploration Orion spacecraft undergoes pressure testing for EM-1 flight Spaceflight Insider (5/11): Engineers from NASA and Lockheed Martin have finished...
Orion Exploration Mission-1 Crew Module Pressure Tested
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 11, 2016 – The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and NASA Orion team has successfully proof-pressure tested the Orion spacecraft’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) crew module. The crew module is the living quarters for astronauts and the backbone for...
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft discovers over a thousand new exoplanets
It was a big day for NASA’s Kepler Mission yesterday as the science team announced a momentous finding. They discovered a lot of new planets. How many planets? Fifty or one hundred? Maybe even 500? The mission actually verified 1,284 new planets, the largest...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, May 11, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA on track for uncrewed and first piloted Space Launch System/Orion test flights in 2018 and 2021. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA managers: SLS/Orion on track for Fall 2018 launch Spacepolicyonline.com (5/10): Managers for...
NASA’s Orion team celebrates its extended family
Small parts, big ambition. NASA’s Orion crew capsule will take humans farther than they’ve ever gone before. Among the highlights for Orion’s progress in April, special attention and appreciation was given to an important supplier of spacecraft...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, May 10, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Opening the door to space mining. Space Science Mining issues in space law Space Review (5/9): Deep Space Industries and the government of Luxembourg have teamed and will join an independent effort already underway by Planetary...
NASA’s next-generation robots will walk the surface of Mars
How do we get to Mars? Step by step. NASA has sent many robotic missions to Mars, some of which we’ve talked about in the past. Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter How will we continue this legacy of robot explorers on the red planet?...Space Talk
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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
