In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA offers an updated plan for transitioning ISS activities to commercial stations. Now that it has overcome a pebble obstruction, the Perseverance rover is once again drilling for rock samples. Human Space ExplorationNASA details...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The first black woman NASA astronaut assigned a long duration mission in space is nearing an April launch to the International Space Station. China follows NASA’s lead in turning to the private sector to advance in space. When it...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… China’s new five-year space strategy includes robotic missions to the lunar south and north poles to look for water ice and other measures preparing China to lead the establishment of an international lunar research base. New...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Artemis II astronauts to be named this year. NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel members express their concerns about agency reorganization. Number of 3-D printed parts aboard satellites grows amid advances in additive...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Israel joins Artemis Accords. The first launch of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket will include a memorial to those who produced the Star Trek television series, and fans. Human Space Exploration Israel becomes 15th...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA crossed another milestone this week in its preparations for Artemis I, an upcoming uncrewed test flight of the Space Launch System and Orion capsule around the Moon and back to Earth. Meanwhile, Russia and China appear poised to enter...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… James Webb Space Telescope arrives at its home at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point nearly one million miles from the Earth. The Artemis I mission will include secondary payloads, one of which will visit the smallest asteroid ever to be...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… JWST to reach its new home today. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on January 21 launched space-monitoring satellites for the U.S. Space Force. Space ScienceThe James Webb Space Telescope glides to its deep-space parking spot...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Axiom Space working with Space Entertainment Enterprise to build space film studio. InSight lander awakens from safe mode. Human Space ExplorationESA looks to space summit to endorse human spaceflight effortsSpaceNews.com (1/20): The...
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA confirms Russian ASAT test has doubled the risk of debris penetrating the International Space Station. Israel to sign the Artemis Accords. Federal budget standstill having ‘ripple effects’ on national security space...
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.