Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, February 26, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… History suggests NASA’s human spaceflight programs face disruption with changes in administration. Human Deep Space Exploration House bill would restructure NASA management to provide more stability Space News (2/25): The...
Statement by Executive Director of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration on Today’s House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Hearing on the Need for Stability at NASA
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration applauds Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Johnson and the members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee for holding today’s thoughtful and substantive hearing on the need for stability at NASA,...
Mariner 6 launched on a mission to Mars 47 years ago today
On this day in 1969, the Mariner 6 mission launched from Cape Canaveral on a journey to Mars. Mariner 6’s mission goals were to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars during close flybys, in order to establish the basis for future investigations, and to...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, February 25, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… With bold leadership, humans will return to deep space, predicts Gene Cernan, the NASA astronaut who commanded NASA’s final Apollo mission and focus of a new documentary. Human Deep Space Exploration Last man on the moon...
NASA’s Orion: 100,000 parts riding 8 million pounds of thrust
NASA has been putting its Orion Capsule “crew display and control system” through its paces – a lean three-screen set-up designed as a user-friendly alternative to the “nearly 2,000 switches and controls” packed into the space shuttle....
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, February 24, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Lunar orbit may be just the place to test a NASA habitat developed to house astronauts on future missions to asteroids and Mars. Human Deep Space Exploration Plans being devised for human outpost near the moon Space.com (2/23): A...
Our favorite Spitzer images
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has been in operation for 13 years and has made some extremely important observations of the early universe. Take a look at our favorite images coming from this unsung hero of astronomy!
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, February 23, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… More than Apollo, the NASA/Lockheed Martin Orion spacecraft is designed to transport human explorers beyond the moon and back. Human Deep Space Exploration Insider exclusive: Lockheed Martin’s Jules Schneider talks EM-1 and...
#MarsMonday: Unusual Mars exploration concepts
The history of Mars exploration has produced sometimes outlandish concepts for exploring the red planet. While the spacecraft that have actually visited the surface of Mars have been either landers or rovers, let’s take a look at some recent examples of...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.