Feb 1, 2016
Celebrate #MarsMonday with some of our favorite images of the red planet! These selections were taken by the Curiosity rover and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Feb 1, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Exploration Mission-1 Orion spacecraft ready for Super Guppy flight to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA’s EM-1 Orion spacecraft ready to ship to Florida Spaceflight Insider (1/30): After...
Jan 29, 2016
The little spaceship that someday will carry American astronauts back into “real” space – somewhere beyond low-Earth orbit – is making steady progress, with the so-called pressure vessel now fully intact. The pressure vessel is the heart of...
Jan 29, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA prepares to start work on a powerful new Space Launch System upper stage to extend human deep space exploration. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA’s Bill Hill talks SLS scheduling and Exploration Upper Stage Spaceflight...
Jan 28, 2016
We take the time today to honor and remember the brave men and women who gave their lives to further human knowledge through space exploration. These explorers made the ultimate sacrifice, and we are both inspired by and thankful to them. As our nation takes the next...
Jan 28, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Orion assembly moves to Florida in a march toward a 2018 deep space test flight. A nation remembers the Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1 astronauts. Human Deep Space Exploration Lockheed says Orion still on schedule for 2018 mission...
Jan 27, 2016
A giant metal frame standing several yards wide rises up nearly 200 feet inside the Michoud Assembly Facility, NASA’s massive 832-acre space park outside New Orleans. “What you’re looking at is the largest welding system in the world,” said...
Jan 27, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s human deep space ambitions rely on the largest, most powerful rocket ever developed. Human Deep Space Exploration Boeing builds the most powerful rocket ever made CNBC (1/26): Boeing tailors its development of...
Jan 26, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Robots possible partners in human deep space exploration. Legal expert questions limits of new space property rights legislation. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA counting on humanoid robots for deep space exploration Spaceflight...
Jan 26, 2016
An aft skirt similar to one that will be used on a solid rocket booster (SRB) that will help launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket into space was transported from the Booster Fabrication Facility to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) at the...