Orion’s tech and the future of deep space exploration
The Orion spacecraft is being engineered for humanity’s journey to Mars, with the tech needed for a wide range of mission profiles. Check out this video from FW: Thinking on the engineering that will take us out to deep space:
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. A NASA workshop gathered scientists and engineers to prep for the first human landings on Mars. NASA engineers have tested a rocket engine that...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 2, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA is pursuing spacecraft development at an aggressive pace, say experts. Writer Andy Weir explains how The Martian was formulated. The...
NASA Marks Completion of Test Version of Key SLS Propulsion System
A structural test article of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for NASA’s new deep-space exploration rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), has been completed at United Launch Alliance in Decatur, Alabama, prior to handover to the Boeing Company of...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, October 30, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The U.S. Senate early Friday joined the House in approving a two year budget/debt limit deal that goes to President Obama for signature. NASA...
John Glenn’s second spaceflight anniversary
On this day in 1998, John Glenn returned to space and became the oldest human to do so. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, preforming a four-hour flight in the Friendship-7 spacecraft on Feb. 20, 1962. After retiring from the Astronaut Corps. and...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, October 29, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The Coalition for Space Exploration to formalize organization. Cassini, the long running U.S., European and Italian spacecraft mission at...
Coalition for Space Exploration takes steps to ensure broad support for deep-space exploration
Organization establishes new structure, undergoes name change and announces its first executive director The Coalition for Space Exploration, an ad-hoc organization of space industry businesses and advocacy groups, today announced it is taking formal steps to...
NASA’s Next Megarocket could launch mission to Europa
The huge rocket NASA is developing to get astronauts to an asteroid, Mars and other distant destinations should also greatly aid robotic exploration efforts, members of Congress were told Tuesday (July 28). The Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, scheduled to fly...Space Talk
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