Deep Space Extra for Thursday, April 28, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Mars comes to Earth with help of Augmented Reality. Human Deep Space Exploration Mars Comes to Earth: Scientists ‘Visit’ Red Planet with Augmented Reality Space.com (4/27): NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has partnered...
New Horizons’ data will help protect future human deep space explorers
Most famously known for its Pluto encounter in July of 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft had also been gathering data for three years on solar wind measurements after passing the orbit of Uranus and before encountering Pluto. In this region, very little was known...
Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, April 27, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…Traffic in Central Florida slowed Tuesday for Space Launch System hardware en route to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Human Deep Space Exploration Platform for new NASA rocket rolls through Titusville Florida Today (4/26): Newly...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, April 26, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…Production of the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s first test flight of the Space Launch System exploration rocket and Orion crew capsule is underway. Human Deep Space Exploration First SLS Solid Rocket Booster Segment Is Cast...
Spacesuits for Orion are being tested now
The spacesuits that astronauts will wear when they travel to deep space inside NASA’s new Orion spacecraft are being evaluated now at Johnson Space Center. The spacesuits are being tested to ensure astronauts will be able to effectively interact with Orion’s...
New Researchers Chosen to work with the Mars Curiosity Rover
Curiosity recently got some curious new researchers! Twenty-eight researchers have been chosen as participating scientists to work on projects with the Curiosity Mars rover. These researchers will be actively involved with day-to-day science operations and rover...
Deep Space Extra for Monday, April 25, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…NASA’s Kepler space telescope is back in action! Human Deep Space Exploration China Official Says Film ‘The Martian’ Shows Americans Want Space Cooperation Reuters via New York Times (4/22): China plans to become more...
The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration Applauds NASA Appropriations Bill
The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration applauds Chairman Richard Shelby, Vice-Chairman Barbara Mikulski and the entire Senate Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee for its outstanding support for NASA’s human and science exploration programs in...
Pioneer 11’s mission began 43 years ago this month
The first spacecraft to fly past Saturn, as well as return photos of Jupiter’s polar regions, was launched 43 years ago this month. At it’s closest approach to Jupiter, Pioneer 11 was the fastest traveling human-made object at the time, moving at 171,000...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
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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.