Coalition for Deep Space Exploration Honors Senator Mikulski for Nearly Three Decades of Support for Space Exploration
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar, the executive director of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration, issued the following statement regarding Senator Barbara Mikulski’s final hearing with the Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee....
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been in Martian orbit for 10 years
On this day in 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at the red planet. The MRO was designed to explore Mars from orbit, delivering the Earth high resolution images to help researchers to build incredibly detailed maps of the planet’s surface. One of the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, March 10, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA prepares to test fire the RS-25, a powerful first stage rocket engine for the Space Launch System exploration rocket under development to start astronauts on future missions of deep space exploration. Human Deep Space...
#YearInSpace: Mars, Miles, Months, Mass and Momentum
During his yearlong mission aboard the International Space Station, Scott Kelly traveled over 143 million miles in orbit around Earth. On average, Mars is 140 million miles away from our planet. Coincidence? Well, basically. There’s nothing average about a trip to...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, March 9, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Strides by NASA astronauts and space hardware are bringing a mission to Mars within reach. Human Deep Space Exploration Houston, we have an opportunity…it’s called Mars Denver Post (3/8): A just-ended 340-day mission to...
The Future Of Human Spaceflight
NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is a spacecraft planned to take astronauts farther than any human has ever gone before. The agency launched the spacecraft on its first test flight in December 2014, and NASA hopes to launch Orion on a crewed mission...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, March 8, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… U.S. human deep space exploration ambitions faced with challenges from erratic funding and sometimes chaotic Congressional budgeting processes. Human Deep Space Exploration Déjà vu all over again: NASA and the question of risk The...
Explore the Red Planet with Google Mars
Google’s continually-updated maps of Mars provide an incredible and easily accessible way for students and enthusiasts to investigate another world. Users can display markers for geographic features, regions, current and historical spacecraft, and even locations...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, March 7, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Space exploration advocacy organizations unite to urge smooth transition in presidential administrations to preserve U.S. leadership. Human Deep Space Exploration Organizations offer space policy white paper to U.S. presidential...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
#Mars #NASA
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.