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Lowdown on Ceres: Images From Dawn’s Closest Orbit
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit at dwarf planet Ceres, has delivered the first images from its best-ever viewpoint. The new images showcase details of the cratered and fractured surface. 3-D versions of two of these views are also...
Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA announced Wednesday that is has backed off plans to launch the multinational Mars InSight mission in March in response to French...
Orion’s November Accomplishments
Scientists and engineers all over the world were incredibly busy with NASA’s Orion spacecraft last month–here are some of the highlights: –Orion’s ESA-built service module arrives at NASA’s Glenn Research Center for evaluation...
Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA has assembled scientists as well as engineers to help it scout out the most promising landing sites on Mars for future human explorers....
Our favorite Mars images for #MarsMonday
From MRO to Curiosity, our robotic explorers have taken some truly amazing photos of the red planet. Take a look at some of our favorites below!
Deep Space Extra for Monday, December 21, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The U.S. House, Senate and White House enacted an omnibus 2016 spending bill on Friday with increases for NASA and other federal space...
Mars InSight Spacecraft Shipped to California for March Launch
NASA’s next Mars spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for final preparations before a launch scheduled in March 2016 and a landing on Mars six months later. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built and tested the spacecraft and...
Deep Space Extra for Friday, December 18, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. U.S. House leadership pressed Thursday for passage of a $1.1 trillion 2016 omnibus appropriations measure, which includes increases for NASA’s...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/
