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...
Deep Space Extra for Friday, April 22, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…NASA’s 2017 spending plan clears the Senate Appropriations Committee with increases for the agency’s Space Launch System exploration rocket and Orion crew vehicle development activities. Human Deep Space Exploration...
SLS Highlights for March 2016
The largest spacecraft welding tool, the Vertical Assembly Center, was recently used to complete the final welding for a liquid oxygen tank confidence article at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. This provided the first glimpse of what one of the two tanks...
Deep Space Extra for Thursday, April 21, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA will prepare for the human exploration of Mars with missions to the cis-lunar proving ground using the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule, explains Dava Newman, the agency’s deputy administrator. Human Deep Space...
ISS crew begins work on high school-designed experiment
If you’re an astronaut who has just inspired a student, chances are you’ve left a lasting impression on them. If you’re a student who had their experiment sent to space, you’ll probably remember it for a long time. If you’re a space agency whose astronauts ran a...
Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, April 20, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…With the nation’s direction in space exploration on a sure footing, it’s time to stay the course and extend U.S. capabilities. Human Deep Space Exploration Op-ed | Stay the Course: Continue America’s Progress in Space ...
Orion enables the human exploration of deep space
Since the first human flew in space, astronauts have left Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for vanishingly small periods of time. Astronauts left LEO during NASA’s Apollo program between 1969 and 1972 when 18 of them approached the moon. The last man walked on the moon more than...
Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, April 19, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…Key U.S. Senate appropriator seeks NASA budget increase. Human Deep Space Exploration Mikulski vows to increase NASA funding in Senate bill Space News (4/18): In remarks before the Maryland Space Business Roundtable on Monday, U.S. Sen....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
