Today is the 405th anniversary of the discovery of Jupiter’s moons
On this day in 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter’s moons Io, Europa and Callisto. Galileo’s contributions to the scientific revolution of the Renaissance cannot be understated–Galileo almost single-handedly revolutionized scientific thought....
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, January 7, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s deep space exploration plans include women in prominent roles. Russian economic, foreign relations issues slow but don’t...
NASA 2016 Budget Allots $55M to Habitation Module Development
As part of the $19.3 billion allocated by Congress to NASA for the 2016 fiscal year budget, $55 million will go towards accelerated development of a habitation module for use in potential deep space missions. According to Space News, the report states “NASA shall...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. European space officials express interest in joining with NASA for a future Europa mission. Partnered with the European Space Agency, Russia is ready...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden talks human deep space exploration. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter solves Apollo 16 mystery. The...
NASA’s Spirit Rover: 12 years a Martian
On this day in 2004, the Spirit rover successfully landed on Mars inside of the crater Gusev. Spirit, part of a two-rover team, landed three weeks before its sister rover Opportunity and became the first robotic explorer to return a high-definition image of another...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, January 4, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. U.S. lawmakers back work led by NASA on a deep space habitation module in their 2016 spending bill. NASA marked 2015 with Space Launch System...
2016!
From everyone at Explore Deep Space and the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration, we wish you a happy new year and a 2016 full of SCIENCE!
Our next-generation space telescopes
The Hubble Space Telescope has been our eyes on the universe for over 20 years, and will soon be joined, and succeeded by, several more instruments that will exponentially advance our understanding of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the...Space Talk
@SpaceArchivist_ Yes, the LVSA might be a slight issue, so try it whichever way works best for you!
as for KSP, I appreciate the offer, but i love to show off my own KSP stock stuff so ill probably do that myself, but i do thank you for the offer!
@SpaceArchivist_ could you replace the ICPS with centaur V?
I'm working on a video about SLS centaur V, and one of the points im going to discuss is how massively overkill current SLS is for CV, and that this, much smaller SLS could also do such a thing, and would like to give the audience a
@SpaceArchivist_ and of course, Ill credit you in video!
What a strange configuration
Hey as a completely unrelated fun fact did y'all know that Orion can only be integrated vertically?
We're not rebuilding the same pad for New Glenn. We're moving to a horizontal/vertical hybrid configuration to get us flying again this year at 36A. We were already working on something similar for 9x4 at 36B. Let me explain what that means. We mate the stages horizontally in
@ThePrimalDino @Tygget getting Orion to LLO with CV would definitely require a refill in LEO, and at that point it would make more sense to just use a beefier cislunar transporter
@serendistant @Tygget yup. especially given how tall that rocket would be. it would be very unwieldy
We’re at the Great American State Fair in DC, where we’ve got live feed of NASA astronauts @Astro_Jessica and @Astro_ChrisW replacing a wrist joint on the @Space_Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm during their spacewalk! Tune in here: http://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/us-spacewalk-95/
