Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, March 24, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Now, is no time to reset a visionary U.S. civil space policy with its focus on the human exploration of Mars. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program can’t afford another reset from the next...
NASA explores equipment to keep astronauts fit
NASA is talking up some of the equipment that it has invented for astronauts to use to keep fit while they are on a long duration space missions. To avoid losing muscle and bone mass, astronauts must work out for two hours each day. During the week ISS astronauts have...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, March 23, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Mississippi rocket engine tests prepare NASA’s Space Launch System exploration rocket for future flight tests. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA moves ahead on Space Launch System tests Mississippi Public Broadcasting (3/22):...
SLS Highlights for February
The SLS Highlights report for February is out! In this issue: –The secondary payload for the first SLS launch has been selected – 13 CubeSats that will be released while the Orion spacecraft flies to the moon. –Work has begun on the SLS core stage...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, March 22, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Op-ed: Strategic U.S. commercial collaborations could extend the nation’s post-election space reach. Human Deep Space Exploration Russian space program to match NASA’s annual budget over the next decade Ars Technica...
The #Mars fiction that inspires us
While humans have been fascinated by Mars throughout history, writers in the 20th and 21st centuries have been particularly prolific in dreaming about the red planet. These stories are extremely important, as they inspire readers to achieve their dreams. For...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, March 21, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Assembly of NASA’s Space Launch System exploration rocket is no small effort. Human Deep Space Exploration For rockets going farther than ever, you need the best and biggest tools Ars Technica (3/20): Tooling at NASA’s...
Interview With Orbital ATK’s Charlie Precourt, 4-Time Space-Shuttle Pilot
by Rich Smith, author on The Motley Fool As vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK’s Propulsion Systems business, Charlie Precourt oversees such vital national programs as development of the solid rocket booster that will help send NASA’s new...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, March 18, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s legislative overseers sound bipartisan call for adequate NASA funding. Human Deep Space Exploration House authorizers join pro-NASA chorus on Hill Spacepolicyonline.com (3/17): Members of the U.S. House Science, Space...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.