Orion Monthly Accomplishments for January
The Orion roundup for January is out! In this issue: –The pressure vessel to be used for Orion’s Exploration Mission-1 is now in final testing and assembly at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. –New parachutes for Orion are being...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, February 19, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… First lettuce, now zinnias and soon to come tomatoes. Space Station astronauts evaluate plant growth for future human deep space exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration Space farmer Scott Kelly harvests first “space...
Pluto was discovered 86 years ago today
On this day in 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. The existence of a planet beyond Neptune was first proposed by Percival Lowell, who posited that orbital perturbations in the outer planets were being caused by an undiscovered body. Using Lowell’s...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, February 18, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA pursues Hall thruster development as part of a deep space propulsion strategy for future human exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop Hall electric propulsion system Spaceflight Insider...
NASA begins construction of SLS core stage mock-up
NASA has begun the process of constructing a mock-up of the vast core section of its planned Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The simulated core will serve as a practice tool for NASA prior to the 2018 launch of the SLS, which the agency hopes will move mankind one...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, February 17, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA asks students for help with the design of eating utensils for astronauts on deep space missions. Human Deep Space Exploration Star Trek and NASA just issued a replicator challenge Popular Science (2/16): NASA has joined with the...
SLS Monthly Highlights for January
The January Highlights Report for SLS is out! In this issue: –The final welding for SLS’s launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) has begun at Marshall Space Flight Center. The LVSA will connect two major sections of the SLS — the core stage and the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, February 16, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Human explorers: an important part of advancing scientific discovery on Mars Human Deep Space Exploration Why a Mars landing could be terrific for science The Space Review (2/15): Essayists Chris Carberry and Rich Zucker, of Explore...
NASA Prepares Orion Spacecraft for Its First Big Mission
The Orion space capsule is expected one day to carry astronauts to Mars, but for now, NASA is busy getting the vessel ready for its first big exploration mission to the moon. The conical-shaped Orion crew module pressure vessel arrived at Florida’s Kennedy 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.