Coalition for Deep Space Exploration Honors Fallen NASA Astronauts
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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, January 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...
Boeing builds the most powerful rocket ever made
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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, January 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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, January 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...
SLS Aft Skirt Moved to RPSF for Solid Rocket Booster Pathfinder Operations at Kennedy Space Center
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...
NASA’s Orion spacecraft takes a big step closer to Mars
NASA’s replacement for the Space Shuttle is one step closer to getting off the ground as the space agency announced last week it had completed welding the main structure for the Orion spacecraft. Together with the Space Launch System (SLS), which is also currently...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, January 25, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The next U.S. administration may decide where humans land on Mars. Robots may build the outpost. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA could choose Mars human landing site during next presidential administration The Planetary Society...
Today is the 48th anniversary of Apollo 5
On this day in 1968, Apollo 5 launched from Cape Canaveral. Apollo 5 was the first orbital flight of the Apollo Lunar Module on a Saturn IB rocket. Unmanned, the flight’s objectives were to test the Lunar Module’s descent and ascent engines and stages, as...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
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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.